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The mangled body of a man was yesterday discovered around 14:00 hours on the thoroughfare in the vicinity of High and Princes Streets, Georgetown.
Although the man was earlier in the day unidentified, by nightfall police were able to ascertain that he was 66-year-old Jairam Beepat of Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara.
The body of Jairam Beepat victim lying in a pool of blood.
Eyewitnesses said that the man was crossing the road when he was hit by a speeding Canter truck, which fled the scene immediately after the accident.
Beepat at the time was clad in a multi-coloured shirt, denim pants and was wearing a pair of rubber slippers. The body was taken to the Lyken Funeral Parlour.
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