Two persons are dead and five injured in an early morning accident involving a truck that had just left Bartica for the mining fields in Region 7.
The identities of the dead are still to be ascertained but this newspaper was told that a woman is among them. She is suspected to be from Berbice. ย The driver of the vehicle is from Bartica, this newspaper was told by the resident.
Details on the accident are sketchy, but a Bartica resident told this newspaper that the it occurred at about 8 am just before the Itaballi Landing. According to the source, the truck was laden with fuel and other goods for the backdam.
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