00:00 According to reports, as the two police officers were approaching the peak facility located near power boats in Chagaramas,
00:06 the boat's outboard engine exploded.
00:09 Police said that one of the men was thrown off the vessel due to the force of the explosion while the other man jumped out.
00:16 A witness who spoke with TV6 News said,
00:20 "I heard the explosion. I did not see it, but then I saw the small boat on fire coming towards the jetty near power boats.
00:29 It was unmanned and smoke was coming from it."
00:32 He said that it bumped into a few small vessels that had been moored and then it became entangled with the ropes used to moor the other vessels.
00:40 It was only then it stopped.
00:42 People on board other vessels moored nearby used their fire extinguishers and brought the fire under control.
00:49 In the meantime, the two officers had been picked up by a pilot boat.
00:55 They were brought on board and made to lie on their backs on the deck until they were transferred to a Coast Guard vessel,
01:02 which then took them to Coast Guard headquarters at Stouffvilles Bay.
01:06 From there, the two officers were taken by ambulance to the St. James Hospital.
01:12 PC Terbani is reported to have sustained burn injuries to his face, left and right arm and back,
01:20 while Police Constable Gonzalez
01:23 sustained an injury to his left leg.
01:25 Jocelyn Gonzalez,
01:28 TV6 News.
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