The police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on Wednesday floating in the Puruni River, Region Seven, and bearing what appeared to be gasoline burns.
The man, who was identified as 50-year-old Dexter Carmichael of Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice, was found floating hours after he had last been seen in a drunken state according to a release by the Guyana Police Force (GPF). The release stated that on Wednesday, between 18:30 hrs and 20:00 hrs, at Region Seven, the man who was employed by a mining operation, had been imbibing.
It was further stated that the man went onto a boat laden with fuel in an old mining pit at about 18:30 hrs. Then at about 20:00hrs, the boat was discovered, sunken in the pit, while the man’s body was seen afloat.
The body was retrieved and escorted to Bartica and subsequently transported to the Memorial Garden’s Funeral Parlour in George-town, where it is awaiting a post-mortem examination. Detectives who examined the body observed what appeared to be gasoline burns about the man’s shoulder.
Investigations are ongoing.
