Logger killed after truck overturns on Mabura road

Ravindra Persaud

Windsor Forest logger Ravindra ‘Ravi’ Persaud was killed on Thursday morning after he lost control of his laden truck, which overturned on the Mabura Road and pinned him underneath.

The man’s distraught father, Mookesh Persaud, told Stabroek News that his son had departed Chiney Landing at Siparuni, Region 8, around 6 am, heading towards Linden. He was accompanied by a porter, who was sitting in the front passenger seat of the truck when the accident occurred.

The elder Persaud said that the uninjured porter, in recounting the accident,