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Mar 19, 2011 News
A 14-year-old boy was killed on the spot around 16:15 hrs yesterday after he was struck by a minibus at Hope, East Coast Demerara.
The victim has been identified as Theron Berkshire, of Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara.
A police statement said that the driver of minibus BMM 576 was proceeding along the roadway when Berkshire allegedly ran into the path of the vehicle while playing Phagwah with other students.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
However, the lad’s mother has claimed that he was standing on the parapet when a minibus driver who was trying to overtake two vehicles veered onto the parapet and struck her son.
The driver has been detained.
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