DENROY Henry, 19, who was hospitalised after a boat ferrying passengers to a funeral last Friday collided with a log in the Pomeroon River has succumbed to injuries he sustained in the accident.
At the time, the man and his relatives were attending the funeral of the late Ravin Piper, an 18-year-old who perished in a boat mishap near the mouth of the Moruca River last Friday night.
Reports are that Denroy Henry, a Pomeroon resident was among several passengers travelling along the river when in the vicinity of Grant Trial, Lower Pomeroon, the boat’s engine hit a submerged log.
Henry was flung from the vessel and reportedly hit the back of his head on the vessel’s engine.
He was rushed to the Charity Hospital for treatment in an unconscious state but was subsequently transferred to the Suddie Hospital where he died.