THE Better Hope, East Coast Demerara home of relatives of missing and presumed dead fisherman Ramesh Sancharia was burglarised Saturday evening.

The family members, who have all travelled to neighbouring Suriname, told the Guyana Chronicle that they received a call sometime after midnight from neighbours who related that their home had been robbed.

Efforts to contact the police were unsuccessful.

One of the relatives, who spoke under condition of anonymity, related that since everyone was seeking answers about his father, they all locked the house and travelled to Suriname, asking neighbours to keep an eye on it for them.

“We neighbour call last night and tell we how the place get rob that some boys did coming home from a party and they see some men fetching out things from we place; them call out for thief and them men escape.”

He continued that from what he understands, the men had already taken a load of stuff and were returning to take more when they were spotted.

The relative also said calls to the Vigilance Police Station went unanswered. This, the relative said, was communicated to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and he promised to look into the matter.

The son, who works in the construction industry, said a number of tools he recently bought were carted away, in addition to a brand new music set and jewellery.

“Right now we are stressed out because we come here to deal with one thing and then is double worries, the place get rob. We get some people gone to check it out, but they won’t know what we lost,” the relative said.

Ramesh Sanchara is among 20 fishermen who were brutally attacked by pirates in Surinamese waters some nine days ago.

His relatives believe that his body is among the three bodies that were recovered a few days ago by Surinamese authorities.

The bodies were mutilated and were in a decomposed state. Sanchara’s family was advised to submit samples for a DNA test to confirm the identity of the body discovered.