A 34-year-old engineer reportedly drowned after he fell overboard between Monday morning and Tuesday from a boat at JSB Investment Stone yard and wharf located at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara and his body was yesterday found in the Demerara River.
Dead is Neil Sookram, a resident of Lot 18 Caines Street, Meadow Bank, Georgetown.
Reports are that the incident took place sometime between Monday and Tuesday while the ‘Christopher B’ boat which Sookram was working on was docked at the wharf located at Block ‘R’, Soesdyke Public Road, EBD.