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Man injured in freak accident with makeshift electric shear

Apr 16, 2009 News

A contractor was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital just after noon on Tuesday with a hole in his abdomen. He sustained the injury while using a makeshift electric shear.
Twenty-one-year-old Kim Jeffrey, the injured man, told this newspaper that he was doing some work on a building at the Berbice Car Park some time around 12:30 hours on Tuesday when the incident occurred.
According to Jeffrey, he had only come from the North West District on Easter Sunday to begin working on the building.
He said that the shears he was given was a makeshift one, and while he was cutting a piece of zinc the blade snapped and sliced his stomach before falling and cutting his left leg.
The injured man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
His condition is listed as stable.
Also at the Georgetown Public Hospital is 35-year-old Clifford Blair, who was admitted with two stab wounds – one in the region of the heart and another to the left side of his abdomen.
The man who hails from Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, was attacked and stabbed by two known men.
Blair related to hospital officials that the two men ran up to him and began stabbing him and immediately fled the scene. The matter has been reported and investigations are ongoing.

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