Natasha Charran, mother to the 22-year-old man who died after a metal lift fell from a building and pinned him to the ground, said the metal lift she feared for years, is the same lift that killed her only son.
Sudesh Charran, a labourer of West Minister, West Bank Demerara (WBD), met his demise on Thursday at the F&R Supermarket located at Stelling Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD).
When Guyana Times visited the family’s home on Saturday, the inconsolable mother could not come to grips with the death of her son, whom she described as “a very loving person.”
The dead man’s mother told this publication that the lift that killed her son has been a hazard at the business place for years, and no effort was made to get it fixed.
The woman said that she, along with her husband who is now deceased and only son worked at the establishment for some time, and had always feared the lift.
“My daughter call me and tell me something happen to Boy and me ask she what happened, and she said something happen at the work place. Meh shout and me tell she meh know something wrong with meh son, meh know is that lift. Me seh the only thing that will kill meh son is that lift; and so, said so is that lift killed my son,” the woman said.
The grieving mother related that it has only been two months since her husband died, adding that her son died on the second day he returned to work after grieving his father’s death.
“This is nothing easy, instead of marrying out my son I have to go and bury my son. I was working there in 2017 and right there we have to pass to carry the garbage out. There is nowhere else you can pass to carry the garbage out. Every time I go to carry out the garbage, we would have to run because we frighten the lift.”
