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Hope Canal claims life of former estate worker

May 23, 2014 News

Police are investigating the death of a former Enmore Estate worker, who lost his life in the Hope Canal, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
Dead is Sanjay Sukhram, 23, of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara. Kaieteur News understands that the man left his home and went to the canal with a group of friends.
His mother, Kaloutie Sukhram, detailed that her son would usually visit his friends at Hope.
“He went out yesterday morning and he bin sleep out de night before because he been at a birthday party at a house two blocks away…He come home, but he just left in a taxi and seh he going. He nah tell we whey bin goin’… we just hear that he drown…”
The woman said that her son was formerly employed at Enmore Estate but that he was recently employed as a gardener.
“He like follow friends. He bin ah wuk at de Estate but me stop he because he does go out with he friends and don’t go to wuk. He nah got children or so.”
Residents of the community recalled seeing the young man among a group of persons who were fishing at the canal.
“He would normally come to Hope and visit with a family, who live nearby the canal…They were catching shrimp and he decided to go and bathe in canal, that’s when they saw him waving but the canal was recently dug again and it is deep. Several persons jumped into the canal and tried to assist but they couldn’t find him for a long while,” one resident recalled.
“About a half an hour later, the body was taken from the Hope Canal. It was around 2:30 and they wrapped him in a sheet,” the resident added.

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