Suspected Corentyne pirate attack
The body of another crewman from a missing Corentyne fishing boat was discovered yesterday along the foreshore at Good Faith, Mahaicony, bringing the death toll to two with two more fishermen still missing.
The body was identified as that of Lamar Petrie, 20, of Lot 9 Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant. The body of Kawal Kissoon, also known as ‘Ajai,’ 36, of Lot 233 Letter Kenny, Corentyne, was discovered on Friday morning on the foreshore of the Abary River. Still missing are boat captain Vishnu Seeram, also known as ‘Kevin,’ 20, of Port Mourant and Marvin Tamasar, called ‘Buddy’, 20, of Lot 305 Port Mourant.
Petrie’s body was brought to the Bailey’s Funeral Parlour, West Coast Berbice, where families of the missing men rushed yesterday afternoon to see whether it was their relative. Petrie’s mother, Onika Simon, identified the body as that of her son sometime around 5:30 pm.
