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Mining pit collapsed on mother of three
A 36-year-old woman is now a patient at the Woodlands Hospital. This was reportedly after a mining pit collapsed on her at Baramita, Region One on Wednesday last.
The injured woman, Rita Leonard, a mother of three, is said to be in a stable condition at the private facility. She is being kept for observation.
The injured woman
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News visited the Carib-speaking woman at the hospital, she could only say “mud fall pon meh” but her husband, Milton Leonard, who is staying at the Amerindian Hostel said that she was at the backdam working, when a mining pit caved in on her.
He said that a wall about 20-foot high collapsed while the woman was searching for small qualities of gold. An excavator was used to remove the dirt that buried her.
Milton Leonard explained that he was working in another backdam when one of his colleagues informed him that his wife was injured and she was taken to the hospital. “When I reach I see she deh lay down in the Tundra back.”
The woman was eventually air-dashed to the city. She will be discharged soon.
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