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Army recovers missing Pomeroon farmer’s body
Members of the Guyana Defence Force retrieved the decomposed body of 47-year-old Orton Benjamin, the farmer who was struck and killed while transporting his wife and a five-year-old boy to the Liberty Primary School,
The damaged boat
in the Lower Pomeroon River, Wednesday morning.
Army ranks had mounted a search for him since he went missing on Wednesday, and have indicated that the GDF would foot the financial expenses for Benjamin’s burial which is scheduled to be held today. Results of the Post Mortem examination which was performed yesterday revealed that he died from multiple injuries.
The dead farmer’s wife, Simone Benjamin, who survived the river accident, said, yesterday, that members of the GDF have since reached with her family to discuss the role the army would play in terms of compensation..
A meeting was scheduled late yesterday with Mrs. Benjamin and a team of GDF officers.
Benjamin met his demise Wednesday morning after his 15-horse power engine boat in which he was transporting his wife and a child was struck from behind by a boat belonging to the Guyana Defence Force.
Simone recalled that her husband’s boat was struck by the GDF vessel which then resulted in him falling overboard. Mrs. Benjamin reported that her husband died before he submerged.
Benjamin recalled their boat overturning after the impact. She and the child were however rescued by relatives who live close by.
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