Eight-year-old dies after struck by car

An eight-year-old student of the Number 56 Primary School lost his life yesterday afternoon after he was struck down by a car on the No 56 Village public road. He was pronounced dead at the Skeldon hospital.

Dead is Yoerindra Radhay of No 56 Village Corentyne, Berbice.

A police press release yesterday said that the child was hit by a car bearing registration number PPP 6164 which was allegedly speeding, and that the driver struck the boy who was