GUYANESE fisherman Satrohan Jagdeep Persaud, 53, of Little India Squatting Area, Corriverton, Corentyne, Berbice, died when he was pinned between two boats, during a piracy attack at sea on Sunday. Police said, at about 08:30 h, the Guyanese crew members of two fishing boats, operating in the Number One Caroni, Suriname area, were attacked by two men armed with a shotgun and a cutlass.

During the attack, Persaud fell overboard and was squeezed between two vessels, resulting in his death.

It was reported that the two armed men went alongside the fishing boat ‘Anna’, captained by Chandradat Harrynauth, 47, of Number 73 Village, Corentyne, with a crew of four.

The duo held the fishermen at gunpoint, took over their craft, which had a 48 horse power outboard engine and 2,400 pounds of seine and sailed theirs tied to it.

The pirates then used Anna to ram the ‘Nazia’ which was captained by Ricky Barry, 35, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, with a crew of four, Persaud among them.

It was the ramming that caused Persaud to suffer the injuries to which he succumbed while the pirates stole a quantity of fish glue and the engine lead from the ‘Nazia’ and put the Anna fishermen in theirs before sinking the one in which they arrived on the scene and escaped.

The men on board the Nazia pulled Persaud’s body aboard and managed to reach Number 66 Fishing Complex, from where it was taken to Skeldon Hospital mortuary, on Corentyne, too.