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Fishermen missing after pirate attack

Jul 15, 2014 News

Up to late last night the whereabouts of four Guyanese were still unknown, four days after they were victims of a vicious pirate attack in the waters of neighbouring Suriname.
The men are feared dead after their bloodstained boat and bloody clothes drifted into the Guyana shore near Mahaica, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
“Is sheer blood inside; like dem men get chop up bad,” a source close to the owner of the vessel told Kaieteur News.
The only person accounted for so far, is the captain whose name was only given as Feroze of Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.
He managed to survive by holding on to a floating object for hours after he was reportedly thrown overboard by the pirates.
He was rescued by Surinamese authorities and is currently assisting with investigations.
Kaieteur News understands that two of the missing crew members hail from West Demerara, one from Lusignan and the other from Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.
According to reports, the vessel is registered in Suriname and is operated by Guyanese Deochand Bharrat and a Surinamese partner.
Bharrat travelled to the neighbouring Dutch-speaking Republic to gather information on what transpired but had earlier reported the matter to local police since Friday last.
Details are sketchy, but this newspaper was reliably informed that the men were fishing in the open waters when a boat with the pirates pulled up alongside their vessel.
The pirates stormed the fishing boat and according to Feroze, began “firing chops at everybody.”
According to reports, the captain reported seeing one of his crew members sustain a severed hand.
Feroze reportedly told Surinamese investigators that he was thrown overboard and he does not know what happened to his crew.
Obviously, the pirates made off with the fishing boat’s outboard engine, since the boat was left to drift for more than a day before it landed on the Guyana shore.
Local police have examined the boat and have taken samples of the blood-soaked clothes that were found in it.
“My husband coming back with the first boat tomorrow and he will have more information,” Bharrat’s wife told this newspaper when contacted last night.

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