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Death And Destruction
From Our Own Correspondent
SUVA, March 5.
COMMANDEERING a heavy transport lorry without the owner’s authority, an Indian on March 1 went hurtling through Suva and up the By-Pass Road, above Walu Bay. The truck ran into a private car and spun it completely round, all but demolished a small parked van, ran over an elderly Fijian who was walk ing on the footpath, went over a sand pile and smashed into a fence.
The Fijian victim died in hospital a few hours later.
Charged with manslaughter and with taking the lorry without authority, the Indian was next day remanded in custody so that the question of his sanity could be settled, after observation.