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HAVING secured the yacht on which a French national and his dog were found dead in Guyana’s waters, the police are now awaiting a post- mortem to determine the cause of death.

According to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, the man who was identified as Michel Robert Louis Bozier was aboard the “Allegro” yacht, bearing a French flag, which was spotted offshore Guyana on Wednesday last. The dog, he said, also had a French passport and was identified as Louise Tifille. The year of birth of the dog was 2012.
The vessel was secured Saturday morning by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coastguard, and authorities were then summoned to the Coastguard Base at Ruimveldt, where they removed the bodies from the yacht.
The crime chief noted that even though the man was a French national, as his passport and the vessel had indicated, a post-mortem could be done locally, but only after the body has been identified by a relative of his.
According to Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips, a tanker vessel which was moving from Jamaica to Brazil observed the French-registered yacht drifting with the tides out at sea on Wednesday last. In the yacht, a dead man and a dog were spotted.
It was revealed that the captain of the tanker sent a transmission which was picked up by the local coastguard, which in turn informed the relevant agencies. The captain of the tanker further informed the coastguard that they could not stop to render assistance. However, they assisted in providing information on the location where the discovery was made. Using this information, the GDF Skyvan conducted a flyover survey to confirm the location and a team from MARAD, GDF and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) then journeyed to the location. (Ravin Singh)