The autopsy performed yesterday on the body of a young man who was pulled from the Canal Number Two Conservancy on Monday night after he went jet skiing has ruled that the man died from drowning.
Twenty-seven-year-old Amernauth Shampersaud also known as ‘Amar’ of Lot 7, South Section, Canal Number Two, died Monday night following a jet ski accident at 19:00hrs. The post mortem was conducted by government pathologist, Nehaul Singh, and concluded that the deceased died from drowning after suffering blunt trauma to his head said to be consistent with that of him falling from the jet ski.
According to Commander Simon McBean, Shampersaud was in the company of two other friends with whom he was socialising at the conservancy. It was reported to him, McBean said, that the two friends were first jet skiing on the water, after which Shampersaud took off by himself in a southerly direction. When they did not hear from him for a while, they looked towards the direction he had gone but only saw the jet ski floating on the water with Shampersaud nowhere in sight. An alarm was raised and other residents assisted in the search. His body was found half an hour later. Shampersaud was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) where he was examined by a doctor and pronounced dead on arrival.
The investigation into the man’s death is ongoing.
