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Miner hacked to death
Twenty-nine-year-old Kevin Huggins, of Rivers Town Village, Essequibo Coast, was viciously hacked while asleep on Wednesday morning in his mining camp at Barakat Backdam, Quartz Stone, Cuyuni , Region Seven. The attack occurred around 01:00hrs
Huggins sustained severe wounds, some bone -deep. The victim was chopped on his shoulders, arms, back and left thigh.
Reports indicated that persons around the location had a hard time accessing transportation to take Huggins immediately to the Bartica Public Hospital. They only managed to get the man to hospital yesterday and by then he was dead. His body arrived at the hospital, around 3:30pm, where he was officially pronounced dead.
Porters prepare to transport the body to the mortuary
Persons who were transporting Huggins claimed that he was very much alive in the boat that was transporting him and that he died about twenty minutes before their arrival on Bartica.
Kevin Huggins leaves to mourn his mother, father, a brother and a sister.
Huggins, formerly of 46 Suddie Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, was said to have earlier “represented two bad woman”.
Lydia Huggins, Kevin’s sister, said that the message of her brother’s fate was relayed to her by her grandmother, Aileen Huggins, who was informed by one of her friend’s sons, who also worked in the interior.
Lydia said that she last saw her brother in December. He rarely visited the Coast.
She explained that her brother had reportedly intervened after the two women were being taken advantage of by two men. She said that as Kevin attempted to stop the brawl, he chopped one of the two men on his shoulder.
She said the man threatened, “Bad man don’t sleep.”
Lydia said her brother bled to death.
Kevin worked as a miner with a man named “Owl.
A team of policemen from Bartica has already left for the area to conduct their investigations. The Quartz Stone area is about at least a six -hour boat ride from Bartica.
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