An elderly man was last evening struck down on Mandela Avenue by a John Fernandes Limited shipping container truck and is currently in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The man, whose identity up to press time was unknown, was said by eyewitnesses, to have been running out of a nearby yard when he was hit by the vehicle, with licence plates TMM7431 around 6:30 PM. The truck was at the time travelling westward on Mandela Avenue and struck the man about two hundred yards from the traffic light intersection of Mandela Avenue and the East Bank Public Road in front of the Agri Parts Machinery & Service office.
One woman, who requested anonymity told Stabroek News, at the scene, that she was on her balcony when she saw the man running out of the yard.
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