Just one week after  a building owned by Banks DIH at Industrial Site Ruimveldt, collapsed leaving one dead, a second person who was hospitalised with injuries following the incident, has died.

The man, identified as 27-year old Anthony Lowe, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the hospital’s  Public Relations Department noted.

Jagmohan Bissessar, who was one of the persons trapped in the building when it collapsed last Wednesday, died on arrival at the GPHC.

Reports are that five persons were in the building which was being demolished when it collapsed. Two of the men who were trapped within the building when it collapsed were rushed to the GPHC with serious injuries.

The employees were attached to Home Designs Construction, the company that was carrying out the demolition on the building at the time of its collapse. Station Officer, Clive McDonald, Second in Command for Operations at the Guyana Fire Service, in an interview with the media, stated that the fire service immediately responded following news of the incident.

The incident is being investigated by the authorities.