Pine wall falls, injures woman

AT FIRST IT was the wells but now the fear is guard walls in the housing areas are dangerous, too.

Concerned residents are wondering when their complaints to the National Housing Corporation (NHC) will be taken seriously.

Yesterday morning, after 8:30, Cheryl Rock, of #12 Hilton Row, Princess Royal Avenue, Pinelands, St Michael, was returning her daughter’s dog to the yard when a guard wall collapsed and injured her right leg.

“I opened the gate to let Sarah [the dog] in and I see the whole wall coming down,” she said. “I tried to pull myself away but my foot got hurt; if I didn’t pull way that wall would have crushed me.” (SB)

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