Two of the persons injured in Monday’s smash-up between a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and a minibus at Meterzeer Road, Rupununi, Region Nine, leaving three persons dead, have been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital, and a third is expected to be discharged today. The others remain warded and are being closely monitored.

Attorney-at-Law Leslie Sobers being taken out of the ambulance at the Georgetown Hospital.

Those killed were driver of the minibus BLL 4059 – Juliano D’Aguiar, also known as Jermaine; Lalis Antoine, 52, also known as Elsie Henry of Shea, South Rupununi; and three-year-old Brandon Grimmond of Lethem. Antoine was occupying a seat in the front of the vehicle next to a male passenger whose name was given as Police Constable Wendell Caesar. Grimmond, whose mother Florence was traveling with him, is among survivors warded at the GPHC.

Arrangements are being made to have the body of the toddler returned to his home in the Rupununi to be buried.

The injured persons discharged from the GPH yesterday are Constable Wendell Caesar of Diamond Housing Scheme – a member of the Guyana Police Force, and Raneer Mc. Dowell, 66, of 105 Western Enmore. Attorney-at-Law Leslie Sobers, who suffered injuries to his head and right leg, was advised that he has no broken bones and would possibly be discharged today.

Meanwhile, those remaining in hospital and suffering injuries which include broken ribs, head and facial injuries, injuries to the neck, and broken limbs are Muneshwar Churriman 42, of Section C Berbice; Muhammed Hussein 76, and his wife Syrul Mohammed – both on vacation from London; Adriana De Nascimento, 31, of No. 42 Village, West Coast Berbice; and Abdelilah Safir of Brazil.

Most of the patients, when visited by this newspaper yesterday, were experiencing excruciating pain, except for Syrul Mohammed whose condition seemed fairly stable.

Also numbered among the injured from the minibus were three other Brazilians who were all transported back home for emergency medical care. Along with them on the emergency shuttle to Boa Vista was the badly injured Guyanese toddler who was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital there.

The three persons on vacation from London were traveling to the city in the SUV driven by Vishal Singh, of Crabwood Creek.

Following the mishap, Singh was taken into police custody at Lethem.

His relatives yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that Singh suffered severe internal injuries and needed to be examined by a doctor urgently