Two Corentyne fishers die after set afire

Leonard Fernandes

The police are investigating the deaths of two Corentyne fishers over the weekend after they were set alight by a colleague while fishing off the foreshore at Albion on Tuesday evening.

Dead are 15-year old Leonard Fernandes, called ‘Renee’ of Lot 288, Reef Section, Rose Hall and 45-year old Beeram Motee Lall, a father of four also of Rose Hall and of Bloomfield on the Corentyne.

According to Indrawatie Sookdeo,  Fernandes, who was the second of her five children, left her home on Tuesday