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A two-year-old boy died after falling on a ‘cuirass’ fish and one of its bones pierced his brain on Monday.

Dead is Faraad Mohamed of Meten-meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara. According to reports, the child was on a bicycle along with his mother, who had just purchased the fish and they were returning home at about 11:30 am on Monday, when they fell.  Mohamed fell on a fish and one of its bones pierced his head.  His mother pulled the bone out before rushing him to the Leonora Diagnostic Centre.

He was later transferred to the West Demerara Regional Hospital and then to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he died.

A post-mortem examination yesterday found that he had died of brain haemorrhaging due to the wound.

He was buried according to Muslim rites late yesterday.



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  1. SandHurst First (When you Speak Your Mind, SN edits like They Don't Mind) GUYANA says:

    Ohh, I am so sorry, my sympathies!!

  2. SAM-MAN UNITED STATES says:

    THIS IS VERY UNFORTUNATE MY SYMPATHY GOES OUT TO THE FAMILY.

  3. RAYMAN CANADA says:

    my condolance to the parent and family of this little kid it is not the way to go

  4. blue_moon UNITED STATES says:

    awww he is sleeping in the arms of Jesus

    • Witch DR.go L.Hamilton CANADA says:

      no,in the arms of BUDDAH.

    • malaika06 BAHAMAS says:

      Look, y’all stop y’all thrash!

    • SOL UNITED STATES says:

      you people can be so cruel.

    • sweetsohany GUYANA says:

      No Allah. Peace be onto him.. I am so sorry what happened to that little boy.. Malaikao6 I agree with you 100% sweetsohany

    • M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett (-181) UNITED KINGDOM says:

      …just sleeping…forever…that’s all…amen…

    • ralex CANADA says:

      sad,symphaty to the mother for trying to get food that cause this accident. no matter wher he is. he will be miss by all who knew him

    • Mohamed Z. Rahaman UNITED STATES says:

      blue_moon, please have some respect and save your insults for another forum.

      Obviously with the the name Faraad Mohamed, the child was most likely born to Muslim parents.

      If you were unsure, then it would have been more appropriate to say something more universal like “God” or just offer condolences. Is it too much for you to be civil and respect other people’s religion/faith?

    • Mike CANADA says:

      Blue_Moon I think your remarks are disrespectful to Muslims. Didn’t you read that Faraad was buried according to Muslim rites. Don’t you know that Muslims do not
      worship Jesus for they believe he is a creation of God, so they worship the One who created him. If you believe that you will be sleeping in the arms of Jesus when your time comes then your belief has to be respected. It does not matter what anyone thinks about Faraad he has achieved the supreme objective. We
      adults have many things to account for.

  5. my profound condolence to the mother and the rest of the family “its so sad that has humankind we’re living up to all sort’s of disastrous challenge’s “and to all the mothers out there be as prudent has you can ,and then again we cannot predict when the year the month the week the day nor the hour of our last breath ……and that’s why were so confused not knowing exactly where to put our believes “my if only there was a national embrace holiday then people through out the world would understand how to cherish and respect each others life,so sad that its the other way around” to little mohamed may your soul rest in so sure eternity out of this trouble earth, rip

  6. Wow, this mush have been a really big fish to cause such a tragedy, my condolences goes out to the family.

  7. MRS. MURRAY CANADA says:

    OMG. THIS IS SO SAD, ONLY TWO YEARS OLD.
    MY SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY.

  8. SOL UNITED STATES says:

    So sad. Condolences to the family.

  9. ghetto youth / Radika why u leave an go GUYANA says:

    Sincere Condolances to the Bereved Family.
    May Allah grant your soul rest, little one.

  10. Uncle CANADA says:

    What a sad situation. I keep thinking how this poor little boy must have cried for comfort, and his poor mom must have tried to comfort him, wishing she could take away his pain. Very sad. Condolence to his family.

    • michael tannassee UNITED STATES says:

      … especially knowing that it was her mindlessness that caused ,,,,,, how i know ????? get the full story ,, and not this contrived comment by the reporter trying to tell ME this is the fulness of the story !

      does the report ,, of the “accident” tell anyone what “really” happened ,, mother ,,, bicycle ,, child and fish !??????? to me ,, it adds up to more than just de fish bore de pickney in e hed !…. sack it up an sell it someway else ! if nat sell um to doze dat gat no prablem wid wah dem reed !….



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