A FAMILY outing ended in great sorrow on Sunday afternoon, after the head of the home drowned whilst practising the traditional way of fishing in the Rupununi River.

Narrating the tragic incident to the Guyana Chronicle, a man identified as ‘Suresh’ said that Ovid Peterson left home on Sunday morning with his wife, sons, grandchildren and daughters-in-law, to spend the day, picnic style, at the Rupununi River.

At around 13:00 hrs, Peterson and other family members dived into the river to fish by using the traditional method of pushing the hands between rocks for a catch. After a while, they noticed that Peterson was not surfacing and they began to search for him.

After searching for about an hour, the man’s body was found with his hand stuck between rocks that were about 12 feet deep in the Rupununi River.

The body was taken to the Annai Health Centre for an examination to be conducted.