The police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on Wednesday floating in the Puruni River, Region Seven, and bearing what appeared to be gasoline burns.
The man, who was identified as 50-year-old Dexter Carmichael of Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice, was found floating hours after he had last been seen in a drunken state according to a release by the Guyana Police Force (GPF). The release stated that on Wednesday, between 18:30 hrs and 20:00 hrs, at Region Seven, the man who was employed by a mining operation, had been imbibing.
