Timber company employee drowns in Essequibo River

Timber company employee drowns
in Essequibo River
Kaieteur News, 12 November 2007
Police yesterday recovered the body of a 21-year-old Timber company
employee, who drowned during a boating mishap in the Essequibo River .

Rabindranauth Inshanally, of Grove, East Bank Demerara, perished on
Saturday after a tug in which he and about six others were traveling in
sank in the vicinity of Anarika.

The victim's relatives are alleging that there were no life jackets on
the tug and that the vessel was being piloted by a teen who was also
unlicensed to operate the vessel.

According to reports, the passengers, including two women, were heading
from Anarika to a timber grant when the tug began to take in water and
eventually sank.

Some of the passengers kept afloat by clinging to sacks of farm produce
and eventually reached land.

Inshanally reportedly clung to a diesel can, but was later heard crying
out for assistance.

When daybreak came, the crew from a passing vessel rescued the other
passengers but found no trace of Inshanally.

His body was eventually found shortly after 09:00 hrs yesterday.

According to the drowned man's relatives, officials from the company
are still to contact them.