After three days of searches, the decomposed body of 39-year-old Harry Mangal of Abrams Creek body was found in the wee hours of Friday morning.
The body was found around 12.15 am in the vicinity of Abrams Creek by relatives of the man, who were still searching.
The body was retrieved and fished out of the water and taken to the Charity Public Hospital, where Mangal was officially pronounced dead, then taken to the Charity Mortuary.
Mangal went missing on September 28 after his canoe collided with another vessel. He was going to purchase batteries when the incident occurred.
The deceased man’s father, Chandrika Persaud, said he was on his veranda when he heard a loud impact and then ran outside in the direction where he heard the noise in order to investigate. He immediately raised an alarm and called his cousin Moukram Singh to drive down the river with him.
“We drove down and we can’t see anyone. We saw my son’s boat and then it was upside down and he was not nowhere to be found. We knew something was wrong,” the father related.
The father immediately went to the Charity Police Station and made a report. Searches were immediately launched for the missing man’s body.
