Still searching

The search for six people feared dead, when a house collapsed into the Sandy Gully on Wednesday, is expected to resume this morning after a fruitless day yesterday.

However, the focus will no longer be on the gully where the house collapsed.

Instead, the focus will be on other sections of the gully and the sea.

Hours of digging by officials with heavy equipment and residents armed with whatever tool they could find ended late yesterday with no success.

Some family members, friends and neighbours of the missing persons left the scene in tears after workmen cleared the area where the house collapsed and did not find the bodies.

The day started with angry residents blocking a section of Liguanea Avenue to protest the failure of the authorities to send heavy equipment to conduct the search as promised.

"A fool dem take we for. From 4 o'clock yesterday the body them under the place. Let we get the body them now. Mek we see we friend and neighbours to get the body them to bury. Them ago wait until the bodies start stink," one angry young woman declared.

A short while later, member of parliament for the area, Delroy Chuck, arrived on the scene with the heavy equipment in tow.

For hours, the workmen sought to get below the collapsed house while some persons noted a stench of rotten flesh in the air.

But at the end of the day, 34-year-old Skeeta Young, her 42-year-old common-law husband, William Bailey; 11-year-old Brandy Boyd, six-year-old Sedani Williams, four-year-old Kevani Williams and an unidentified family friend remained on the official list of persons missing and feared dead.

The body of 14-year-old Keniji Boyd was taken from the collapsed building on Wednesday.