Still in shock over the death of her six-year-old daughter in a bombing attack on Sunday night at the Mobil Gas Station on Regent Street, Samantha Roach is calling on the authorities to do all in their power to bring the perpetrator to justice.

“I need justice. I need justice. I need some kind of justice,” Roach told reporters as she sat outside of her Breda Street, Werk-en-rust residence with her family and friends mourning the death of her six-year old daughter Soraya Bourne.

Little Soraya Bourne was killed when a bomb planted by a spanish speaking foreign national at the Regent Street Mobil Station, exploded near to the family’s car. The little girl was with family members at the time.

Her cousins, eight-year-old Rashad Lord and 11-year-old Sadiya McClintock were severely injured in the explosion, while her 71-year-old grandmother Yvonne Jonas and 27-year-old cousin Genica Hooper sustained injuries about their bodies. The two young survivors underwent emergency surgeries this morning.

 “I really can’t explain it. I cannot, I cannot, I cannot but I need justice, that’s all I am asking for, for let them give me justice. My daughter is only six, and she was all excited for her birthday,” Roach said.

The mother of four was at home, when she received the devastating news.

Ashana Cains – a family member, who spent the night into the morning at the hospital monitoring those who survived the attack, said her two little cousins underwent surgery for the injuries they sustained while her grandmother suffered a broken leg. The older cousin, Jenifer Cooper, who was driving the car at the time, remains hospitalised.

Cains explained that the family members had just arrived at the gas station in their car to visit the KFC outlet at the location when the explosion occurred.

“Is a normal Sunday afternoon thing when they does go and buy deh chicken. Every Sunday, my cousin does carry them to buy chicken and bring them back. She didn’t even get to come out of her vehicle. She didn’t even get to come out,” Cains said.

Cains said her family could have lost five members in last night’s explosion, as she too demanded justice.

“We need justice, we need justice because we could have lost a whole family. A family of five was going to buy chicken and they are not safe. They are not safe in their own country with these Spanish. They are not safe,” Cains said.

Cains said after receiving of the deadly explosion, she rushed over to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where it was confirmed that Little Saraya had died. According to her, the family was initially blocked from seeing the remains of the little child.

“When I go, I hear my cousin in a room saying show me she, show me she. And the nurse said no, I can’t show you she. When we go in the room, they done cover up the little girl. When we pull off the thing, there is Saraya lying down there. They didn’t even come out to no family member and say nothing. They ain’t even say nothing, and that is the thing bothering us. They ain’t say nothing. The mother fall down, faint away, no doctor came to her rescue. All the security coming and saying, come out from here, come out from here. That is not right! We lose a sibling, we lose a family member, other members battling for their lives. My cousin that was driving, every minute she jumping up, and the CID man coming fuh question she, and she can’t hear,” Cains complained.

Cains said there should have been better protocol in place at the Georgetown Public Hospital to treat with those injured and the grieving relatives.

She said the same could be said of the Police, who were demanding answers from the injured even as they were in agonizing pain.

The Guyana Police Force has launched a nationwide manhunt for the prime suspect, who was captured on CCTV cameras walking out of the gas station, after placing a bag near to a cage fill with cooking gas bottles, at the exact location where the explosion occurred. The man is said to be a spanish speaking foreign national.

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