Half a torso, from the waist to the knees, of an unidentified person, was last evening fished out of a mudflat near the koker at Montrose, East Coast Demerara.
Police crime scene investigators who saw the partial remains said they believed it was that of a man, because male underwear covered the genital area.
When Stabroek News arrived on the scene a crowd comprising police, from the Sparendam precinct, fishermen, media operatives and curious onlookers had converged at the Montrose drainage sluice and they remained until the remains were removed by the Lyken Funeral Home.
Police sources said they received a report that “a body” was seen by a fisherman around 7.45 pm. Another fisherman of the area told Stabroek News that the area where the body was found was where fishermen of the lower East Coast Community would normally dock their fishing boats. He said that some time around 7.30 pm he and other fishermen and residents were alerted about the body, by a fisherman who had just returned from a day at sea.
The fisherman said that he lived in the area and could positively say that none of the other fishermen who dock at that Montrose koker was missing.
Speculation was rife in the crowd about the origin of the partial body, what had happened to the other parts of it and how long it might have been in the water. Police personnel were overheard saying that it was possibly washed ashore with the high Atlantic tide yesterday morning.
Residents said that it could be anyone who drowned within a five-mile radius of Montrose and was washed into the mudflat.
Investigations are continuing.
