Freak Accident Claims Farmer's Life

And, also in the north, a family is mourning the loss of a farmer after he was killed in a freak accident.

According to their reports, 50-year-old Salvador Merced Ozaeta was working on a tractor in a cane field in Yo Creek around 8 this morning when, as he was reversing, the tractor fell on a culvert and overturned. Ozaeta was crushed underneath. He was rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital and was pronounced dead shortly after.