The wife of Daniel Darrell Snr., the truck driver of Tabatinga, Central Lethem, who died on Sunday after he was attacked by a swarm of bees on the Hunt Oil Stretch is asking the public to provide support for the 10 surviving children.
Darrell Snr’s common-law-wife, Emma Riechie, is requesting any help from the public to assist her with her children. Riechie said that, “I don’t work anywhere. My husband was the sole breadwinner for us. One of my sons worked with him as a porter. I really would like to get any help from the public for my children. She described her partner as a hardworking person and added that she relied on him to take care of her and the children. She noted that Darrell Jr will soon have to do surgery for the injuries he sustained in the bees attack. Riechie added that though some are not his biological children, her partner treated them as his own.
Melanik Sadaki, brother of Darrel Snr., relayed that his nephew informed him that his brother and his son, 13 year-old Daniel Darrell Jnr, were returning to Tabatinga from Georgetown on a motor cycle and while they were in the vicinity of Hunt Oil Stretch they ran off the road and were attacked by bees. He said, “They were coming from Georgetown on a motorbike and on the Hunt Oil Stretch, when they approached the first turn, they run off the road. There was a culvert, and they hit the culvert and raise up the bees’ nest. The bees attacked them right there. The son fell on the road and the father fell on the dam.” Darrell Jr. managed to escape the attack but was taken to the Lethem Regional Hospital and was later transferred to a hospital in Boa Vista, Brazil, where he is listed in stable condition. Anyone willing to help Riechie can contact her on 603-9411.
Back on October 1, 2024, Imran Alli, also known as ‘Buddy’, a 70-year-old man of Lot 24 Novar, Mahaicony died after he was attacked by a swarm of bees while clearing some bushes on a plot of land opposite his home. Reports are that Imran and his worker, Dale Husher, a 43-year-old labourer, were clearing the bushes at about 11.00 hours on October 1 when the men came into contact with a bee nest. Alli was later taken to the Mahaicony Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.