Seventy-six-year-old Edward Richards, the eldest from a Wakapau Village family that was hospitalised over the weekend after they mysteriously fell ill, is now the second victim to succumb within days, from what relatives suspect is cyanide poisoning.
Richards, Stabroek News was told, succumbed around 2.15 pm yesterday in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
His daughter, Salema Thomas, died on Monday midday, days after she and four other family members were rushed to the hospital after complaining of feeling unwell. Two other relatives were hospitalised on Tuesday.
