GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government said Monday that it is investigating what it called a terrorist attack on a gas station that caused a car to explode, killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring four other people, two of them seriously.

The attack occurred late Sunday in the capital, Georgetown, and is the third such one this year.

No one has been arrested, and authorities have not provided a motive.

Police said that a man was seen planting explosives near propane gas cylinders at a gas station on commercial Regent Street and escaped before authorities could act.

The explosion was heard in several districts more than a mile away.

President Irfaan Ali asked the public to help locate the suspect.

“I have directed that a full-scale investigation be launched immediately, and tha

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