The decomposed body of Sherida Hussain, one of three persons who drowned near the Number 63 Beach last month, has finally been recovered.
Both the police and Hussain’s son, Joshua Samaroo, confirmed that her body was recovered yesterday around 1.30 pm.
According to Samaroo, on Thursday evening he received information that a body was spotted along the Corentyne foreshore. The young man said he along with relatives went to the area on Friday morning and they launched a search in hopes of locating the body and just around 1.30 pm they were able to do so along the Number 48 Corentyne Foreshore.
Samaroo yesterday told Stabroek that he was able to identify his mother’s body based on a mark on her left foot. The body was transported to the Anthony Funeral Parlour, where a post-mortem examination is expected to be done today.
Meanwhile, Samaroo said that he is unsure of how he feels presently but that this is now a step towards some closure for him. He added that they are looking at a possible funeral over the weekend.
Hussain, also known as ‘Sherry’, 49, of Lot 274 Pilot Street, New Amsterdam, Alwin Joseph, 30, a welder, of P Chandishawweg, District Paramaribo and Babuni Harihar, also known as ‘Doris’, 75, a pensioner, of Number Two Village, East Canje Berbice boarded a boat in Suriname on the evening of February 8th to travel to Guyana via the backtrack route. However, sometime around 7 pm, they were dropped off at a sandbank at the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne.
Hussain had called her son around 7.30 pm and informed him that they were surrounded by waist-high water. “She was saying that they’re off at some bank and the water is up to her waist,” Samaroo had told this publication.
She had also related to her son that that she couldn’t see land. The three were then reported missing and searches were immediately launched for them and two days later the bodies of Joseph and Harihar were discovered.
Pathologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan conducted autopsies on the two bodies which showed that they died from died both asphyxia due to drowning.
