The army corporal who sustained burns on 90% of his body following a fireworks explosion on Saturday died yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
21331 Corporal Seon Rose, 31, of Friendship, East Coast Demerara passed away in the Intensive Care Unit at around 11.50 am.
Two others: Gordon Cornette of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara and Terrance Neil of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara remain patients at the public hospital. Cornette is a patient in the Intensive Care Unit while Neil is a patient at the Burn Care Unit. The five other injured persons: Trevor Joseph, Atto Cort, Victor Low, Delroy Baird and Isaiah Gordon have been discharged from the hospital, a nurse told Stabroek News.