One person is missing after a mishap in the Mazaruni River on Tuesday night and the police are investigating.
In a statement yesterday, the police identified the missing man as `Mark’ or `Rasta’. He disappeared after a wooden boat that he was in with two others capsized in the Middle Mazaruni.
The Police visited the scene at about midday yesterday. Initial investigations revealed that around 8.30 pm on Tuesday, Shojhi Roberts, a 32-year-old Ranger of Isseneru Village, Middle Mazaruni River, borrowed the village’s wooden boat, which is powered by a 75 Yamaha horsepower outboard engine and later left with Mark Benn and ‘Rasta’ for Apaiqua Landing, located about five minutes away.