A 20-year-old man from Long­denville was killed af­ter be­ing hit by a car while at­tempt­ing to cross the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 12.50 am, Bri­an Lal­la and his 18-year-old broth­er Je­re­mi­ah Ma­haraj, both of Cashew Gar­dens, Long­denville, were at­tempt­ing to cross the high­way near Mid-Cen­tre Mall.

The sib­lings were re­turn­ing home af­ter lim­ing to­geth­er at a bar where they con­sumed sev­er­al al­co­holic bev­er­ages.