A farmer was, on Sunday afternoon, crushed to death and dismembered by a shaft of a water pump he was operating at his farmland, located at Esau and Jacob, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

Dead is 55-year-old Seegobin Persaud. The man reportedly left his Mortis, Mahaicony house around 15:00hrs to go into his farmland to tend to his crops. It is unclear what time the accident occurred, however, his son, Asif Mohammed Persaud, told the Guyana Chronicle that he was at work when he received a telephone call that there was an accident involving his father in the backdam.

Mohammed Persaud related that he quickly left what he was doing, rushed to the backdam and, upon arrival, he saw his father’s dismembered body.

“…the water pump hook he and tear he body up,” the man’s son said, adding: “At the scene… we just see his body in pieces, headless body; just tear up, cruel accident.”

According to Mohammed-Persaud, his father has been a rice farmer for over a decade and he would often pump water into his farmland with a water pump attached to a tractor.
An investigation has been launched into the accident.