Days after being hospitalised at the Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, Phyllis Archer, a passenger on the boat that caught fire while traveling from Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela to Charity, Essequibo last month, succumbed to her injuries. Hospital sources told Stabroek News that the woman died on March 24.
Archer and her husband, Carl Archer, a visually-impaired man, were passengers of a boat that burst into flames while travelling along the Waini River on Sunday, March 10.
The passengers were en route to Charity, in Region Two from Puerto Ordaz, in Venezuela, when the vessel burst into flames at the mouth of the Waini River, close to Shell Beach in Region One. Five Guyanese and 17 Venezuelans were aboard the boat, police reported.
