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Soldier drowns in New River Triangle area
A Guyana Defence Force Private lost his life on Saturday when he drowned at the army’s New River Triangle Base
Dead: Dellon Nero
The body of Private Dellon Nero, 24, was recovered and was flown to the city yesterday, according to a press release from Army Headquarters Camp Ayanganna.
Reports are sketchy on the circumstances of the soldier’s demise, with not even relatives having a clue as to what transpired.
But according to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), 21066 Private Dellon Nero died by drowning at approx 18:25 hours Saturday last at a GDF location in the New River area.
The GDF said that a team of investigators from the GDF and Guyana Police Force were flown to that location yesterday morning to probe the incident.
There are reports that Nero and a colleague were travelling in a boat which capsized sending both of them into the river.
According to the reports the other soldier managed to swim to safety but by the time help was summoned Nero had vanished.
This newspaper visited his mother’s 1036 Cummings Park, Sophia home yesterday and she informed that she was made aware of her only son’s death when a relative contacted her yesterday.
June Sancho said she was not certain if her son was a good swimmer. She described him as a quiet, loving and caring person who was very dear to her heart.
Up to yesterday when she spoke to Kaieteur News, the GDF had not made contact with her.
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