Air Guard Sgt to be laid to rest Saturday

Guevara, 38, a father of five and stepfather of four, of Bennett Village in Los Bajos, was returning home from playing cards at about 5 am when he was killed.

Police are still uncertain about how the accident occurred as the driver of the vehicle fled the scene after the accident.

An anonymous caller to the Siparia Police Station said on reaching Quarry Village in Siparia, the car ran off the road and struck a WASA main line. Guevara was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene.

Yesterday his grieving widow Debra Vargas-Guevara said it is difficult dealing with the death of her husband. “I can’t imagine my young, strong, handsome husband is gone.

It is very hard dealing with his sudden death,” she said.

Adding to her sorrows, she said, was news of the death of her uncle yesterday. She said she is to receive counselling from the Defence Force.

And while funeral arrangements are still being finalised, Guevara, an officer in the Fixed Wing Unit of the Air Guard, is to be laid to rest on Saturday with full military rites.