St Mary carpenter killed in freak accident

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St Mary carpenter killed in freak accident

Forty-eight-year-old Kenneth Williams, a carpenter of Mango Valley in St Mary, was killed in a freak accident in the Boscobel Housing Scheme in the parish on Thursday. The police report that about 9:30 a.m., Williams was using scaffolding to...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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