A passenger who fell and struck his head on Saturday, while boarding a Caribbean Airlines plane at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, died on Sunday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Dhanchand Balkishun, 57, an American citizen of Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice bled severely from a head wound his wife said. The man who had re-migrated a few years ago was returning to the US to visit his elderly parents.
His wife, Akleema Balkishun, told Stabroek News that she had accompanied him to the airport in a taxi and left around 2.10 pm after he went through immigration to board a 2.50 pm flight.
