Chinese national chased to his death

SEA LOTS bandits are said to be responsible for the country’s latest road fatality, that of 44-year-old Chinese national, Quin Li Xue. Li Xue died on the spot around 8.30 pm Saturday on the Beetham Highway in the vicinity of Bhagwansingh’s Hardware. Police said the non-national worked as a mechanical engineer at  National Fisheries Limited in Sea Lots. He began work in January and was due to complete his assignment later this year. It is reported that Li Xue and several of his Chinese colleagues were walking on the northern side of the Beetham Highway in the vicinity of the Central Market. Traffic Branch police said some people tried to rob Li Xue and his colleagues, who then ran in a southerly direction in the vicinity of Bhagwansingh’s.

Li Xue’s colleagues made it across the east bound carriageway, but police said Li Xue ran into the path of an oncoming vehicle which was proceeding in a westerly direction along the Beetham Highway. The Honda Civic vehicle was driven by Devindra Kandahar of Central Trinidad. Police said Kandahar contacted the police and a party of officers from the Traffic Branch under PC Ramkissoon visited the scene and conducted investigations. District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr Cynthia Low Chee Tung viewed the body and ordered it removed to the Port-of-Spain mortuary where a post mortem is expected to be performed today. Senior officers told Newsday yesterday that the bandits live in the Sea Lots area and this was becoming a matter of real concern for them. They said earlier this year two men were killed in similar fashion, but in the Beetham/Laventille area, in two separate accidents on the same night. No arrests have been made up to late evening in connection with any of the three road fatalities. PC Ramkissoon of the Traffic Branch is investigating the latest one.