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Gold miner chopped, robbed
An 18-year-old miner has been hospitalized after being chopped and beaten unconscious on Thursday last, allegedly while being robbed of two-and-a-half ounces of gold.
George Savory of Moruca, Region One told Kaieteur News that he is a gold miner in Port Kaituma, North West District.
He claimed that on Thursday last, he left his camp at Eyelash Backdam to go on the “front road” to wait for a truck to transport him home, but after waiting for several hours he left to go back to the camp.
George Savory
He told this publication that although it was around 23:00 hrs, he was not scared to walk through the track, leading to the camp, since it was a “usual something”.
“When I was walking, shining my torch-light, two men come and ask me for money so I tell them I don’t have any money and they start beating me and one of them chopped me with a cutlass, after that I can’t remember anything else,” the injured man told Kaieteur News.
He was then rushed to Matthew’s Ridge hospital before being transferred to GPHC.
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