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Joyride in ‘stolen’ car kills three
..as vehicle plunges into Belle West canal
A late night escapade, ended tragically for three friends of Belle West, Canal No. 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara, (WBD) after the car they occupied ended up in a nearby trench.
The incident is said to have occurred at around 12:30 am yesterday.
Dead is Premraj Bhola, called “Bhola,”, 20, and Aleem Solomon, called “Pall Mall”, 19, of Belle West, Canal No. 2 Polder WBD. Their friend, Ganesh Sookcharan, is said to have suffered in the accident; his body has not been recovered.
Reports are that the three friends met their demise after the motor car, they occupied, skidded off the road and into the canal. The driver of the vehicle is said to have lost control after he attempted to avoid a collision with an animal on the road.
Residents along the Public Road related that there was a loud noise at around midnight but no-one suspected that there was an accident.
“It was not until someone said that a vehicle ran off the road…I don’t think anyone could have done anything at that time because it was so late and dark. People could not see anything,” one woman explained.
Kaieteur News understands that it took hours and the help of a dragline to retrieve the badly damaged rented motorcar, from among the weed-choked canal. The bodies of Bhola and Solomon were then taken from the front and back passenger seats of the vehicle.
Residents reportedly combed the area, for the third victim, Ganesh Sookcharan, but their search was in vain. Sookcharan was said to be the driver of the vehicle at the time of the mishap. He reportedly stole the car from his stepfather, on Sunday night.
As news of the accident spread through the usually quiet neighbourhood, residents and family members of the victims converged at the scene of the accident.
Meanwhile, those gathered at the homes of the deceased expressed their grief at the news. They were also at a loss as to what really caused the accident.
“Maybe they were drinking and got high …But they were so young,” one person noted.
Sabita Bhola recalled that she spoke with her son around 21:00 hrs on Sunday. “He only tell me that he going on the road and come back,” the woman recalled. That was the last time, the woman said, that she saw her second eldest child.
At the home of Aleem Solomon relatives were preparing for a wake.
His stepfather, Omzad Singh, related that his son, who works with him in construction industry along the Soesdyke /Linden Highway, left home around the same time, Sunday night.
He said that the next morning the family received news that there was an accident.
“It is devastating; all we hear is that there was an accident and when we go, we see he lying down dead,” another member of the family said.
However, relatives of Ganesh Sookcharan are continuing their search for his body.
His stepfather (who wished to remain anonymous) told this publication that in recent years, the teenager had become “a problem child.”
“He got mixed up in a lot of stuff recently but when he’s not on it, he doesn’t behave like that,” the man said.
The clearly frustrated man related that his stepson stole his rented car while he was asleep, on Sunday night. “The car was parked right here when I went to bed,” he said pointing to an empty spot in the front yard. “I went to bed around 9:30 and when I woke around 8:30 this morning, it was gone,” he added.
He said that he immediately contacted the rental company and asked them to check on the GPS Tracker. “I called the rental and they checked the GPS. They told me that it stopped working at around 12:20 this morning. That must have been right at the time, the car went to the bottom of the canal.” the man said.
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