Twenty-one month-old Celine Silvina Wilkinson tragically perished in a freak minibus mishap yesterday at around 18:00hrs in the Agatash community, some three miles away from Bartica.
The child’s parents, Andrew Wilkinson, 27, and Otana Savory-Wilkinson, 19, and another sibling had just arrived at their destination in Agatash from Bartica by minibus when the tragedy occurred as the family disembarked from the vehicle. The father reportedly decided to put little Celine on the ground in an effort to take money out from his pants pocket to pay the bus fare when the toddler quickly found herself under the back wheel of the bus, which moved off, crushing her.
She was rushed to the Bartica Hospital with blood oozing from her nostrils and was pronounced dead on arrival. The driver is assisting the Bartica Police with investigations (Edward A. Persaud)
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