THE police are hunting a driver who allegedly killed a pedestrian on Thursday night on the Uitvlugt Public Road, Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD).
Dead is 23-year-old Chapil Dave Kumar of Leonora, WCD.Reports indicate that Kumar was standing on the southern side of the Uitvlugt Public Road waiting to cross to the northern side when a motor car that was proceeding west on the southern carriageway, struck him down and drove away.
The pedestrian was taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The body is at Ezekiel’s Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem.