The search for victims of last week’s boat collision on the Mazaruni River has been called off, according to Transport Minister Robeson Benn who said yesterday that maritime officials are now looking to reconstruct what happened in the deadliest riverain accident in decades.
Following the collision it was reported that nine persons were missing however a tenth body was later found. Reports later surfaced that an eleventh person has been unaccounted for.
When contacted yesterday, Benn told Stabroek News that the search was called off on Sunday afternoon as they had found no sign of another body.
An army official told this newspaper that based on the information they had received, there was a Brazilian man who was on one of the boats who reportedly cannot be accounted for. The official told this newspaper that persons using the waterway have been advised to be on the lookout for a body.
Benn said that today, Director of Maritime Safety, Stephen Thomas will be returning to the Crab Falls area where