A 23 year old Public Works Department employee was killed in a road accident at Supply on the East Bank of Demerara yesterday-three days after it is said that he had fallen twice into a grave he was digging for a British soldier.
On Saturday last at Atkinson Field, Ganesh and some other men were digging the grave of Randolph Land, a Grenadier Guardsman, when he fell inside.
After being helped out of the grave by his colleagues, Ganesh slipped and fell into it again.
And shortly after 11 o’clock yesterday morning, while Ganesh – a mason- was on the roadside with other PWD employees, who were working on the renovation of a revetment at Supply, he was struck by a PWD lorry, and died instantly.
The lorry loaded with loam was on its way from Atkinson Field it was stated.
It swerved to allow another lorry, travelling south along the Public Road to pass, when the accident occurred.
(Guiana Graphic July 16th 1963).
