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GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A gang leader accused of orchestrating two village massacres that left 23 people dead in Guyana was killed in a shootout Thursday after authorities raided one of his hideouts, police said.

Rondell Rawlins, the South American country’s most- wanted fugitive, and two other suspected gang members were gunned down by police and soldiers south of the capital, said a police official.

Rawlins was accused of trying to destabilize Guyana through the massacres this year in the coastal village of Lusignan and the mining town of Bartica. He was also suspected of involvement in the 2006 assassination of Agriculture Minister Satyadeo Sawh.