A 37-year-old farmhand in the Abary backlands died by drowning while reportedly attempting to swim across the Abary River, around noon Wednesday.

The body of Seeram Khemraj, better known as Blackie, of Bath Settlement Village West Coast Berbice, was recovered from the river Thursday morning. His father, Gajraj, aka Gago, told the Guyana Chronicle that the man, who resides with his parents, left home on

Monday last to work in the Abary backlands.
He received news of his disappearance and the circumstances around noon Wednesday. The deceased was a father of two girls, Sarah aged 13 and Priya aged 15. The body is at the Anthony Funeral Parlour at Fort Wellington WCB pending a post mortem examination. Police were up to late Thursday afternoon investigating the circumstance surrounding the farmhand’s death.