‘Is like I come back from the dead’

Elson Singh

-Aranka cave-in survivor

Percy Lancaster, one of the survivors of the Aranka backdam cave-in that claimed three lives, says he feels like he has come back from the dead.

It is his take on his managing to escape with his life, while Devon Barry, Deonarine Singh and Elson Singh died as the pit caved in on them in the Aranka backdam, in the Cuyuni on Wednesday morning.

Lancaster and another miner, Randy April, both of Victoria, East Coast Deme-rara, told Stabroek News yesterday that the cave-in caught the entire group off guard. They said that they were working in the