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Passenger dies after altercation with bus conductor over loud music

May 01, 2013 News

 

 

A 52-year-old man was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital shortly after he was reportedly beaten by a route 44 minibus conductor having asked for the loud music in the vehicle to be turned down.
Basdeo Mangra, of 57 Vryheid’s Lust North was pronounced dead at about 17:45 hours on Monday.
According to the dead man’s wife, Kumarie Chintaman, she and her husband had just joined a minibus on the Vryheid’s Lust Public Road and were heading to the city. The woman recalled that when they entered the bus, music was blasting very loud in the vehicle, much to the dissatisfaction of many passengers, but no one said anything.
Chintaman said the minibus then made a stop at Ogle Airstrip Road where they picked up a woman who requested to be put off at Sugrim Singh Road, Industry.
“The music de playing so loud de woman keep shouting and telling dem where to stop but de driver nor de conductor didn’t hear she and dey end up stopping till at UG road.”
The grieving widow related that the woman pleaded with the conductor and the minibus driver to take her back to the location that she requested, but they blatantly refused.
“De woman tell them dey playing de music too hard that’s why dey couldn’t hear wha she say and den when de bus drive off me husband keep asking dem to turn down de music and he and the conductor end up in a argument.”
Chintaman said the two men continued arguing until the minibus reached the Russian Embassy turn. At that point, the woman said, the conductor pulled out an ice-pick and threatened her husband that he would stab him.
“So me husband turn and tell he ‘bore me nah’ and de conductor turn around and start cuffing me husband to de back ah he head, and wid de fuss cuff me husband like he get dizzy and I start screaming.”
Chintaman said the minibus came to a halt and the conductor still held onto her husband and was cuffing him repeatedly to his head until the driver intervened and took away the ice pick.
The couple was then ordered out of the minibus and quickly boarded another minibus and headed to the Stabroek Market bus park.
“I keep watching at me husband…and he look li’l different. Anyway, we go in a 32 minibus because we de going over the river by meh brother wake… he die in ah accident”.
Chintaman said while at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, her husband, who was sitting next to her, told her he was feeling hot and dizzy.
“I ask the conductor to open the window so he could get li’l breeze, but then he rest he head on me and I start rub he face and calling he name, but he ain’t answering back and a girl give me li’l water to sap he face, but he still didn’t respond,”.
According to Chintaman, her husband’s body began to stiffen as though he was getting a stroke and other passengers in the minibus pleaded with the minibus driver to take him to the hospital.
“When we de going to the hospital he do like he get hiccup and he never wake up back, and as soon as we reach the hospital and they put he on a bed de doctor tell we that he dead.”
The woman said when she related to the hospital officials what had happened, she was advised to make a report to the Kitty Police Station. Later in the evening the woman said she was informed that the minibus conductor had been arrested.
Meanwhile, investigators are awaiting a post mortem examination before proceeding with the matter.

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