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Jul 04, 2014 News
The village of Nurney on the Corentyne was plunged into a deep sense of shock on Wednesday as news spread of a small child who died after apparently swallowing a tack (a small, sharp, broad-headed nail).
Dead is four-year-old Malachi McBean.
The child’s mother Candace George was too emotional to speak. According to his grandmother, Brenda George, the incident took place around 12:30 hrs during a visit of Malachi and his mom to her Kildonan, Corentyne home.
The older George and her daughter were chatting outside while Malachi was playing with one of his cousins, Simon Manning, 3, inside the house.
“They went in the house to play—He and his other cousin, and his mother was sitting on the landing and I was going up on the step,” his grandmother stated.
“While on the landing, he [Malachi] run out and opened his mouth to his mother and he couldn’t breathe and she asked him what happened and then the words barely came to his mouth that he had a tack in his mouth—and it go down his throat.”
The child was immediately rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was administered oxygen. “An ambulance wasn’t coming so they had to stop a car to take him to New Amsterdam Hospital.”
The child subsequently died at that hospital.
A post mortem is expected to be performed today.
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