A 25-year-old man died Monday night following a river mishap in the Pomeroon River.
The body of Renny France of Friendship Canal, Pomeroon River is awaiting post mortem. He died after the boat he was in struck a tree just after midnight on Monday.

Information reaching the Guyana Chronicle has indicated that France and another man, whose name was given as Dennon Lyte, were travelling in the boat when it hit a tree causing both of them to be flung into the river. They were picked up by persons from the nearby community and rushed to the nearby health facility where France was pronounced dead on arrival.

Lyte was treated for lacerations and admitted to the Suddie Hospital. It is unclear if the boat, at the time of the accident, had light affixed to it.