GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 8, One media worker was killed, and several others injured Tuesday after a boat transporting media workers and communication personnel from the Office of the President capsized in the Pomeroon River, situated between the Orinoco and the Essequibo rivers.
Cameraman, Trevor Patrick. 48, was attached to a television station in Essequibo and was undergoing training with Radio Essequibo.
Media reports said that the boat carrying the media workers was reportedly a short distance behind the one carrying the presidential delegation when it suddenly flipped over, throwing all of its occupants overboard.
The other occupants, including an information officer and two cameramen attached to the President’s office, were all pulled out of the river by the occupants of another boat that was in the area at the time.
Patrick was pulled from the river in an unconscious state and rushed to the Charity hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The other injured persons have since been brought to the city, where they are undergoing additional medical checks, according to the Head of the President PR Unit, Suelle Findlay-Williams.
President Ali was in the lower Pomeroon area on a visit to flood-affected communities. He has since met with the widow of the cameraman who died.
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