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Canal resident succumbs after minibus crash
– Close friend clings to life
After battling for life at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit for close to two days, 21-year-old Inkumar Rajcoomar, of 78 Clay Brick Road Canal Number Two, succumbed Saturday night last.
According to reports, Rajcoomar, also known as ‘Ryan’ was involved in an accident on Thursday last on the Canal Number Two Public Road. The dead man’s aunt, Juanita Nandkishore told this publication that Ryan left their home around 21:30 hours last Thursday with his neighbour to go buy ‘cutters’.
Dead 21-year-old Inkumar Rajcoomar called ‘Ryan’.
She added that Ryan and his friend who has only been identified as ‘Owen’, left in Owen’s minibus. According to Nandkishore, she later learnt that her nephew and his friend made it to the Stanleytown Public Road where they purchased fried chicken. They were on their way back home when tragedy struck.
“We hear that they reach to the shop and then they had two beers and when they de coming back they try swerving out from a tractor, hit a heap of stones and then into a low bed trailer which was parked on the road.”
The woman added that persons who witnessed the accident related to her that her nephew flew out of the minibus and slammed into a nearby tree after the minibus came to a halt.
Both Rajcoomar and the driver of the minibus were picked up by police who happened to be in the vicinity and were rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital. They were later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
This publication was told that Rajcoomar never regained consciousness. His friend is reportedly in a critical condition.
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