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Annandale pensioner found in nearby trench
Family members of a 73-year-old security guard are pondering what may have happened. He was fished out of a trench at Annandale after he failed to return home yesterday morning.
Dead is Ramsaywak, also known as Bado Boy, 73, of lot 43 Annandale West, East Coast Demerara who was a security guard at the Lusignan Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) and a father of six.
Ramsaywak
According to an eyewitness, Jainarine Baldeo, about 10:00 hrs yesterday, scores of persons gathered at a trench on the Annandale Public Road where pieces of clothing were seen hanging from the bridge.
“The people dem was like he family members and village people because them start crying and when me and them boys ask them wuh happen dem seh the brother missing,” Baldeo said.
He said that a few minutes later, a larger crowd then approached the trench again this time with search men. “The men them start jump in the trench one by one and start looking about like if they looking for something and then one a dem shout “him deh down here. Alyuh help!”
Baldeo added that the fragile body of Ramsaywak was retrieved from the trench and taken away by the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour.
Meanwhile, at Ramsaywak’s home, his daughter Surajay Ramsaywak, told this publication that her father had left home around 5:30 pm on Tuesday heading to work. She added that around 10:30 hrs yesterday a man came and told her that Ramsaywak’s clothing was hanging from the bridge.
“When we went out there we saw the clothing so I called me brother because he does normally go there and drink and then come home; but he said he never went there so I go to the police station to make a report,” Surajay Ramsaywak said.
She added that a few minutes after the report was made, she received
The trench where Ramsaywak (inset) allegedly drowned.
a phone call which confirmed the worst.
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