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Man survives four-storey fall

May 15, 2014 News

A 40-year-old man of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, miraculously survived a fall from a four-storey building, yesterday, which is under construction at the corner of East and New Market Streets, Georgetown.
At 5:35pm, Fizul Habiban, who worked as a labourer on the site, was on the fourth storey of the building when the accident occurred. Reports are that he was at the time lifting steel rods unto the fourth storey.
He accidentally hit one of the overhead electrical wires with the steel rod and was shocked instantly.  He was not wearing any protective gear.
Workers who spoke with this publication yesterday said, “All of a sudden he start swaying and before we coulda rush to him he fall off from the top floor and onto the concrete ground, and he just stay there. We thought he de dead but when we rush down he raise up and start crying out for his belly.”
The man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for immediate medical attention.
Sita Habiban, wife of the injured man, expressed joy that her husband had survived the dangerous fall. “I am not very disturbed because my husband is alive and he is talking. It is a sign and I am happy that God spared him. It is a miracle. I don’t know of anyone who falls from a four-storey building and does not come away with a broken limb. He is lucky.”
Habiban in a brief interview with this publication said that he survived the accident with just a few minor scrapes, burns and a tummy ache, and it is proof that God has a purpose for him to fulfill.
He said, “When I fall I swear to you I saw the heavens above. God talk to me and he tell me fuh love me wife. I am going to be more supportive to my wife Sita. She is all I have. I love her dearly.”
The Diamond resident is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital and doctors expressed that while he is in a stable condition and being monitored, “he is one lucky fellow”.

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