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Mechanic dies in hit and run accident
…driver threatens public-spirited citizen with cutlass
Police are on the hunt for the driver of a route 63 minibus which killed a 32-year-old mechanic of Lot B2 Bel Air Village, East Coast Demerara.
Reports are that 32-year-old Somadatt Seegobin was struck by minibus BHH 4045 on the Railway Embankment Road, Bel Air, at some time around 18:30 hours on Saturday.
The dead man’s sister, Rakha Reddi, said she received the news that her brother was involved in an accident at some time around 18:40 hours on Saturday evening.
“I went home and a man come and tell we that me brother just get knock down; and when I reach out on the road, he was lying there in blood,” the woman said.
She said she was told by eyewitnesses that her brother was walking on the left hand side of the road pushing his bicycle when he was hit from behind.
She said she was told that, after the bus hit her brother, the driver came out and asked a few persons who were gathered around if they knew who the victim was. The driver then drove away.
“Dem seh de driver come out de minibus with a cutlass in his hand and just ask if anybody know de man, and just go back in de bus and drive away…de bus was full with passengers.”
According to Reddi, with the assistance of public-spirited citizens, she took her brother to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The woman said she last saw her brother alive on Saturday morning, when he was leaving for work.
“De morning early he left and he tell we he going somewhere in Industry, and the next time ah see he is when he get knock down,” Redddi lamented.
Meanwhile, the licence number of the bus has since been handed over to police at the Sparendaam Police Station, where an investigation has been launched.
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