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E’bo teen buried under tons of paddy
… as storage tank falls apart
Dead: Threeion Gittens
A teenager died yesterday morning, around 7 o’clock, at his Caricom Rice Mills Limited worksite at Anna Regina, after a storage tank burst and tons of paddy buried him.
Seventeen-year-old Threeion Gittens, of Richmond Housing Scheme, was later retrieved through the efforts of several of the private entity’s employees.
Vishan Singh, another employee, sustained injuries to his right foot. He is currently hospitalised.
When this newspaper visited the scene, scores of persons including family members were standing outside of the compound. Persons complained of not being able to help because they were not allowed to enter the compound.
Relating what had transpired, an employee said that he and three other men were asked by the supervisor in charge to clean the tank.
The man and his colleagues related that the tank apparently had a hole and paddy was seeping through. The men said that they heard a strange sound, and within moments, the tank burst, releasing the paddy.
The employee said he and the other employee just managed to run to safety, but Gittens didn’t make it in time.
The teenager was eventually rushed to the Suddie Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A tearful Pamela Gittens, the teen’s mother, said she received a call from one of her sisters from Church, informing her about the incident. Mrs. Gittens said she immediately left her Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo home and ventured to the Caricom Rice Mills.
The mother of the dead teen (right)
being consoled by a friend yesterday.
Gittens said when she reached the facility, she was allowed in, and when she visited the scene of the accident, her son was still beneath the paddy. She said someone told her that her son “ain’t get a serious accident, is a minor matter, stop crying and keep the faith.”
Gittens said that her son was already dead when they took him from under the paddy.
Only last Sunday, Threeion Gittens’ cousin, Colin Anthony John, died in an accident on the Richmond Public Road.
Gittens was the third of six children. He worked at the private firm almost one year.
Several years ago, another male employee lost part of his hand at the facility.
Police and members of the fire station at Anna Regina were called to the scene to conduct their respective investigations.
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