Two vendors who ply their trade at Bourda Market died after the bus they were in crashed this morning and toppled several times before coming to a halt on the other side of the Success Public Road, East Coast Demerara.
According to information reaching Stabroek News, dead are 58-year-old Denise Cully of Vigilance and 59-year-old Patricia Ellis of Haslington. Five other occupants of the bus are currently hospitalised in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The driver of the bus, a resident of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, is in police custody assisting with the investigations.