…third body of four missing fishermen swollen, decomposing
The body of fisherman Damodar Khemraj, called “Rackoo”, 33, of 101 School Road, Second Street, Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara, washed ashore yesterday afternoon at Golden Fleece, Essequibo Coast. A relative, Rasheed Khan, told the Guyana Chronicle that at about 12:30hrs yesterday, the body was found on the foreshore clad in shorts. His family members were alerted and indicated that they would travel up to the Essequibo Coast to make a positive identification  of the body.
Khan added that the body is swollen and partly decomposed and the face is badly disfigured.
This is the third body of the four missing fishermen to wash ashore. They were on a rescue mission to assist other fishermen who were attacked by pirates. Still missing is Shafeek Khan, of 17 Vigilance, East Coast Demerara.
The bodies of Richard Smith, 38, of 126 Da Silva Street, Newtown, Georgetown, washed ashore at Devonshire Castle, on Essequibo Coast, five days after the boat in which he and the others were travelling capsized on Saturday in the Pomeroon River.
The decomposing Kumar Narine, 43, of t 70 Vigilance, East Coast Demerara, drifted ashore at Hampton Court, on Tuesday about 07:45hrs.
Police said yesterday that the body found at Hampton Court Foreshore, Essequibo, on Tuesday, has been identified to be that of Kumar Narine of Bladen Hall, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. He was one of the missing persons from the rescue-boat that capsized off the Suddie Coast during the night of February 04.
Police said at 06:30 hrs on Wednesday, February 08, 2012, the body of Richard Harvey Smith called “Maga”, 38, of Da Silva Street, Newtown, Kitty was found at Devonshire Castle Foreshore, Essequibo Coast.
Smith had gone out to sea to rescue some fishermen who were victims of piracy in the Pomeroon River and they encountered difficulties due to heavy rainfall and rough waters and their vessel overturned.
Kumar Narine was buried at Suddie in Essequibo on Thursday, while the body of Richard Smith was transported to Georgetown by his relatives.
Narine, a fish vendor; Khan, a taxi driver; Khemraj and Smith, together with the lone survivor, Ganeshwar Reddy, known as ‘Smallie’, all departed from Meadow Bank wharf in Georgetown, in a vessel with an additional outboard engine, to rescue one of the fishing crews that was attacked and robbed by armed men in the Pomeroon River.
Subsequent reports indicate that, during Saturday night, the boat capsized somewhere off the Suddie coast and only Reddy managed to reach shore at Exmouth about 15:45 hrs on Sunday and he was admitted a patient at Suddie Hospital.
Pirates targeted approximately 15 fishing boats off the coast of the  Pomeroon River in a spate of attacks which started around 08:00 hrs on Friday and ended around the same time Saturday.
The fishermen, numbering 19, are all alive, having been rescued and hospitalised. They recounted tales of a harrowing ordeal at the hands of the pirates, who beat them with cutlasses and locked them in a small cabin for hours without food and water.