Four die in East Bank collision

Two-year-old Maya Evans

Four persons were killed and six others injured when the Mahdia-bound bus they were travelling in collided head on with a truck at Coverden, East Bank Demerara, in the vicinity of Kaylee’s Gas Station yesterday morning.

Confirmed dead are bus driver Felix Marc, called ‘Bertie,’ 42, of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara and passengers Delroy Evans and Loretta Evans, and Pulmattie Samaroo of Mahdia. The other six passengers and the driver of the truck, Repish Bhagwandin, were rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre and subsequently transferred to the George-town Public Hospital (GPH).

Among those pulled from the mangled minibus were Savitri Thomas, Orson Ridley, Kelly Douglas and two-year-old Maya Evans,