A Timehri logger succumbed to burns on Saturday afternoon, days after the camp he and others were staying at in Mabura was allegedly set alight by his employer.
David Campbell 49, of 180 Hyde Park, Timehri was a patient in the Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) at the time of his death.
According to the man’s nephew, Jason Persaud, he along with Campbell and two other individuals, Etwaroo Karan and Tyrone Campbell, were in the camp when his employer who was drinking, asked them to push a tractor.
“De man had alcohol in his head and come ask we to push start the tractor.