The body of a hire car driver was early Wednesday morning fished out of the Demerara River, after he went missing from the Demerara Harbour Bridge while returning from a funeral.
Dead is Mohan Singh, 69, of Lot 26 Da Silva Street Meadow Bank, Georgetown. According to the man’s wife, Shanta Singh, 57, she last saw her husband on Tuesday morning before he left for a funeral on the West Coast of Demerara. She said she was told that her husband had consumed a little alcohol before setting off for home. The weeping woman said Singh had hitched a ride with some others in another hire car to come home, but he never came with them.
This newspaper understands that while the vehicle was on the Demerara Harbour Bridge, there was a
