A 69-year-old fisherman of Ruby, East Bank Essequibo drowned in a canal around 2 pm yesterday while trying to set a seine.
The body of Rasheed Mohamed Deen was pulled out of the water with the rope from the seine tied to his waist.
At the time the Koker was open and the strong current from the water must have pulled him in.
Relatives said he was trying to cross over to the other side when the seine became entangled with his foot and tragedy struck.
A man was sitting on the dam watching him and noticed when he went down in the water. After he failed to come up, the man raised an alarm.
It did not take a few men long to find Deen’s body because all they had to do was pull in the seine.
His wife, Jean told Stabroek News that he left around 1 pm to purchase cigarettes and did not tell her he was going to set a seine.
He would usually sell some of the fish. His wife said she had told him to stop doing that but he never listened because he enjoyed it.
He leaves to mourn his wife and nine daughters.
