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Man perishes after overturned tractor pins him
A 40-year old tractor driver was pronounced dead on arrival yesterday at the Fort Wellington Hospital minutes after he was pinned by the vehicle.
Inderjeet Rai, of 234 Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice, was pulled from under the tractor he was driving in a rice field at Bath Backdam early yesterday morning. Kaieteur News understands that Rai, a father of four, was employed by a private rice farmer for the past two months. He was traversing a dam when the mishap occurred.
His wife Shanta, told Kaieteur News that he had left his home around 06:30 hours for work.
She said that three hours later she received a telephone call that the tractor he was driving had turned over.
The woman rushed to the fort Wellington Hospital where she saw her husband’s lifeless body. “God got to help me fuh mind me four pickney,” the woman cried. She said that her husband had wished one of his daughters a happy birthday before he left for work.
Police are awaiting the results of a post mortem examination.
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