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Jul 30, 2016 News
Fifteen year old Yanick Schultz, of Number 8 Village, West Coast Berbice, and a student of the Fort
Wellington Secondary School, died on Thursday, at the Georgetown Public Hospital. He succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accident last Saturday.
According to reports, the teenager was cycling along the Number Four Public Road, on West Coast Berbice, when around one o’clock the afternoon he was struck by a car. He was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital in a critical condition, and because of the nature of his injuries, Yanick was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital and later to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
He was immediately admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital where he remained until he succumbed on Thursday afternoon.
Schultz who would have entered Third Form come September is survived by his parents and two brothers. The family has not yet completed funeral arrangements.
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