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Jul 03, 2013 News
A 52-year-old Brazilian gold miner was shot and killed by bandits early yesterday morning at Sorabaro Road, North West District.
Dead is Jose Francisco De Sousa Lima, formerly of Brazil and Charity Housing Scheme, Pomeroon. He was shot once to the head. The man’s father-in-law, Julian Cummings, also of Charity Housing Scheme, sustained a severe laceration to his head after being gun-butted.
The two men, who were en route to Port Kaituma from their mining camp, were attacked and robbed at around 08:00hrs by three gunmen. The bandits made off with a quantity of raw gold. Samantha Cummings, De Sousa Lima’s sister-in-law explained that their family received the tragic news from the badly injured Cummings, yesterday morning, via telephone.
The young woman said that her stepfather told her that he and De Souza Lima left their mining camp at 06:00hrs, and were heading to Port Kaituma on an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) when they were confronted by the three armed assailants.
Cummings said that her stepfather told her that he fell unconscious after he was gun-butted and when he regained consciousness, found himself lying in what he eventually realized was a pool of blood. The man told his relative that he walked back to the mining camp, some four miles, and related the horrifying ordeal to the other workers.
Meanwhile, Rebecca Calvan, the murdered man’s common-law wife, who was overcome with grief, said she last spoke with her husband on Monday night last.
“He called to check up on me and the two children.”
Calvan said De Sousa Lima, with whom she shared a common-law relationship for the past five years, was recently granted a concession to mine in the North West District, but had been working in the area for almost nine years.
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