A Brazilian national is now dead after the excavator he was operating fell into a mining pit with him last Tuesday.
Stabroek News has learnt from police that 51-year-old Edvaldo Carvalho was working in the Iruma Backdam, North West District, last Tuesday, when the accident occurred. Carvalho, an excavator operator, was reportedly cleaning the overburden in order to prepare a maiden pit to commence mining works when his excavator fell into the pit, trapping him.
