A 74-year-old miner was last evening being treated for severe burns to his upper torso and face following a brazen attack by bandits in the Mahdia area in Region 8 on Friday.
Reports are that Felix Nichols, who operates a mining operation in the Tiger Creek area on the outskirts of Mahdia, was alone at his mining camp on Friday morning when he was attacked by two men.
A relative told this newspaper yesterday at the