A miner is now hospitalised after being chopped to his neck during an attempt to rescue a woman from her abusive husband at an interior mining camp on Saturday.
Joao Alves was flown out of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni district and brought to the Georgetown Public Hospital following the episode, during which he was also bludgeoned to the head with a torchlight.
Colin Pearson, one of the miners who was with Alves at a camp set up at a creek in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni, said Alves was moved to intervene after an excavator operator hit his wife to the head with a torchlight. The woman ran to get away from him and the man chased after her.
Pearson recalled Alves telling the man, “You can’t come hey and be doing them thing, budday.”
He said the rebuke angered the man, who hit Alves to his face with the torchlight.
He also bashed Alves across the head, causing it to burst.
When he was done hitting Alves, the man ran off. However, Alves pursued him.
After a few minutes passed, Pearson said, there was a loud noise which sounded like another blow. He thought Alves had been hit again with the torchlight.
However, Alves returned to the camp bleeding profusely from the left side of his throat.
Pearson and other miners were quick to act. They tried getting Alves out of the area using a motorbike, but it broke down.
As a result, the men took turns during the night plugging his wound with bed-sheets to stop the bleeding. When morning came, Alves was flown out of the area.
When Stabroek News visited Alves yesterday, his head and neck were heavily bandaged.
Meanwhile, Pearson said that a report was made at the Enachu Police Station and Alves’s assailant remains on the run in the area.
