…as first victim is buried
ONE of the victims in the horrific Berbice accident, Salmaa Razac, 23, was the first to be buried yesterday afternoon, following a post mortem performed by Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh at the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary. Razac, who was employed as a converter at the Nand Persaud International Communications, was amongst twelve persons whose untimely death has left the Berbice Community in shock.
Hundreds gathered from all walks of life at the 104 Main Street residence where Razac lived with her parents, and two siblings.
The remains, wrapped in a white kaftan, were displayed briefly for viewing, prior to the final prayers for the dead preformed by attending Muslims.
Earlier, at the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary, Dr Singh, in an invited comment, told the Guyana Chronicle that the cause of death of all the victims was multiple injuries.
Many victims sustained head injuries, facial disfigurement, and multiple fractures, most of these resulting in instantaneous death.
Relatives at the morgue were aghast at the sight of their love ones. Tears flowed unhindered even as some, unrelated to the victims, viewed the corpses as they were taken to several funeral homes. [The final rites for Salmaa Razac, the first accident victim to be buried, being preformed according to Muslim rites at her home at 104 Main Street, Cumberland, East Canje, yesterday afternoon. ]
Those who perished in the accident were Oudit Narine  Babulall, 33, driver of the minibus, of Number 48 Village; Salmaa Razac, 23 of 104 Main Street, Cumberland; Marques Ault, 14, of  Rose Hall Town;  Cindy Jaggernauth of  Nigg Settlement; two-month-old Josiah Khan, and his mother, Talika Mendonca, 21, of  Kildonan Village;  Patricia Asgarally, 28, of Albion; Salmar Juman, 40, of  East Canje; Orlando De Mattos, called Lando, 32, of Manchester Village; Nazaradin Mahinudin, 19, of 40 Betsy Ground, East Canje; Chetram Ramphal, 30, and Janet Baker of Bush Lot, and Number 19 respectively, both Corentyne villages.
Meanwhile, Annawattie Singh, conductress and wife of the minibus driver, Tamika Fraser and Nicloa Ross were all discharged from the new Amsterdam Hospital.
Fiona Paramsook, who suffered a fractured femur and facial injuries, remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.