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Dec 03, 2012 News
– suspect turns self in after wife detained
Police have detained a minibus driver in connection with a hit-and-run accident on Saturday night at La Union, West Coast Demerara which claimed the life of a 44-year-old woman.
Bibi Salima Khan, of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara, was reportedly struck by a minibus at around 19:00 hrs while standing in a poorly lit section of La Union public road. She died on the spot.
The driver fled the scene but another driver who had witnessed the accident gave the police the licence number of the suspect’s bus.
Police visited the man’s home yesterday morning but were unable to locate him. However, this newspaper understands that he eventually turned up at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station after traffic ranks took his wife into custody.
A source said that the suspect alleged that he was driving on La Union Public Road on Saturday night when he spotted an object on the roadway. He alleged that he swerved from the ‘object’ and stopped, but continued driving after he exited his vehicle and failed to see the ‘object’.
The dead woman’s sister said that she was asleep Saturday night when a woman awoke her with the news of her sister’s death.
Simpson said she immediately went to the West Demerara Regional Hospital but was told that no such case was taken there. She was advised to check the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour.
“When I go there I see my sister in the fridge.”
The woman said that she was told by police officers that her sister was struck down in the vicinity of Crane by a mini bus.
She lamented that her sister left home early Saturday to visit a friend in Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara but never returned.
The grieving sister claimed that when she enquired about her sister’s whereabouts the day of the accident she learnt that the friend her sister had gone to meet was in another village so Khan, who has one child, decided to visit another friend in the same area and the two had a “drink.”
According to the sister, the friend told her that he had put her (Khan) in a bus at Den Amstel so that she could go home but he does not know how she ended up in the area where she was struck down.
A post mortem is expected to be done today.
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