A MAN in his late forties, known only as ‘Ano’, of Aurora, was rushed to Suddie Hospital, also on Essequibo Coast, after being bitten by a stingray.

Complaining of excruciating pain on his hospital bed, the patient said he was about to take a bath in a village trench but as soon as he put his right foot in the water he was stung by the reptile.
The labourer said he could not walk and cried as the pain became unbearable.
It is reported that the trench where the man suffered the bite is directly connected to the Essequibo River and many types of fish, including stingrays, swim in and out of it in, during high tides, in search of food.