The Life of New Amsterdam Technical Institute student Merve Melville, was snuffed out, having lost control of a motor vehicle, after being stung by Africanised bees.The saga commenced after the teen responded to shouts of help emanating from his aunt Ingrid Melville, called Patsy, aged 58 years.
On Sunday morning, at Number Eight Village, West Coast Berbice, the woman had ventured to an unoccupied nearby house of a relative, in an effort to have it cleaned, when she come under the vicious attack of the bees.
Consequently, the nineteen year old second year student ran to the rescue of his maternal aunt, and , with another aunt Oslyn, quickly assisted her into motor vehicle PPP 3869 which was intended to transport her to the Fort Wellington Cottage Hospital, a few villages away.
As fate would have it, the bees were not left behind, but had accompanied the fleeing trio , and retaliated by injecting its poisonous stings on the teen forcing him to lose control of the vehicle which slammed into a utility post, a short distance from his home.
As the injured woman managed to open the vehicle door and plunged into a nearby trench, the accompanying sibling fled calling for help.
But Merve Melville, a provisional driver, was pinned behind the wheel and had sustained severe injuries from the impact. As a result, he was unable to move, and it was sometime after that he was rescued form the badly damaged vehicle and taken into another vehicle which transported them to Fort Wellington Cottage Hospital, where Ingrid was admitted and remains a patient .
However, Merve, was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where, his condition was analysed but medical practitioners opted to have him transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he succumbed on Monday morning.
Meanwhile, at the New Amsterdam Technical Institute, his classmates undertaking the motor vehicle repair course, were stunned and shocked at the young man’s passing.
His lecturers Devon Thomas, Mr. Beharry, and Dutchie Sookram, along with his peers have all described the now deceased as ‘an easy going guy’ who will be greatly missed.
The group, thereafter travelled to Merve Melville West Coast Berbice home, where they expressed sympathy to the bereaved.
Merve was the only child of Dawn Melville, a nurse attached to the National Psychiatric Hospital.
Meanwhile, Ingrid Melville, is unaware of her nephew’s demise , as she has questioned her visitors as to whether he had left for school.