Mother dies in Lima crash, eight hurt

Six year old Geeta Persaud being carried into the Accident and Emergency Unit of the GPH by her father, Krishna Persaud, yesterday.

A 34-year-old mother of two died shortly after she was pulled yesterday from a mangled minibus she and her family had been travelling in which was involved in an accident with a car on the Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

Eight persons, including four children, suffered injuries.

Dead is Padmawattie ‘Rida’ Kumarie, of Lot 13 Somerset, Essequibo Coast. The injured persons include her two children, 7-year-old Navindra ‘Amesh’ Persaud and 6-year-old Geeta Persaud; her 10-year-old nephew Satesh Rajkumar; Alan Gildharie, said to be in his late 30s, his wife Claire Gildharie and their 2-year-old son Alex Gildharie. The driver of