Two Venezuelan boat explosion survivors die

Two of the four Venezuelans who were burnt about their bodies when a fuel boat exploded at Morawhanna, in Region One, last Sunday, have succumbed to their injuries.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) said yesterday that two of the men died while undergoing treatment at the institution’s Burn Care Unit. While the GPH did not provide their names, Stabroek News was told that the men were Zadola Antonio, 51, and Antel Gonsalves, 46. Their two countrymen, Ruiz Domingo and another man whose name was given as Elizaul, remain patients of the hospital.

Their conditions were listed as stable.

Stabroek News was told that the Venezuelan embassy here was