A 38-year-old man met an untimely end on Easter Sunday after the tractor he was operating toppled and pinned him in the backlands at DeKinderen on the West Coast of Demerara(WCD).
Dead is Sudesh (only name given) of Meten-Meer-Zorg Reserve, WCD .
Reports are that the driver went into the back dam to do ploughing of lands owned by the Guyana Sugar Corporation, some 20 miles from the public road around 0700hrs today.
On his way out while proceeding north on the eastern side of the road, he lost control of the tractor which turned turtle in the eastern trench causing the driver to be pinned down.He was pronounced dead by doctors at the Leonora Cottage Hospital..
The man’s body was taken to the Ezekiel funeral home for post-mortem examination.