Life begins again for Airy Hall double fatality survivor

Ten-year-old Sameer (front row, left), his father, Mohammed (front row, right), mother Shazie, and siblings, Shafrana, Ameer and Shabeer (back row, from left to right), yesterday afternoon at their home.

After spending almost three months at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), 10-year-old Sameer Shamshudin was welcomed home by his family on Christmas Eve and is said to be happily adjusting.

The Strathoven Primary School student sustained trauma to the head and chest when the vehicle he was travelling in slammed into a lantern post at the Airy Hall, Mahaicony turn on the morning of October 2, killing 12-year-old Raheem Xavier and 15-year-old Collin Williams.

The child spent the first three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit of the GPH before being transferred to the Paediatric Ward. There, his parents saw him open his eyes for the first time