A nine-year-old died yesterday after a concrete pillar fell on him at his Sparendaam Squatting area home.
Tyrese Isaacs, who was a student of the Plaisance Primary School, along with his elder sibling, Theon, 12, was helping his mother to fill water as she washed clothes.
The brothers, according to Theon, were in front of their yard, while their mother was behind the house washing.
Theon said he left Tyrese and ventured to the back to take water for his mother. As he returned, he met the shocking discovery of his brother bloodied as he lay on the ground looking up.
“When I come back I see he lying on the ground, because like the block fall on he and nuff, nuff blood been coming out… all from he mouth. And he look up at me and smile and me smile back with he,” Theon said as he recalled being shocked by the sight and screaming for help.
The elder sibling said he ran to the back of the house and started calling for his cousins and others to help since he did not want to trouble his bloodied brother.
Tyrese was subsequently picked up by his mother, Beatrice Worrell, and others and he was placed in a taxi which was next door and was he transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Worrell was inconsolable at the Georgetown Public Hospital after the doctor broke the news to her that her son was dead.
Travis Leroy, another sibling, said the concrete post which fell on Tyrese was erected in the yard in front of their home as part of the foundation that was being laid for a new house. It is believed the post collapsed and hit the child.
When Stabroek News visited the Sparendaam home, a small structure with posts made of solid blocks was seen and blood was evident in the yard where Isaacs was hit.
