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Kidnapped
mechanic murdered
His
body was found wrapped in tarpaulin in a shallow grave at Hamburg on
the Essequibo Coast, he said. There
was a huge crowd at the Parika fish port when the body was taken there
yesterday afternoon. His
wife and other family members wept loudly and openly as the sack
containing the body was brought from the boat and taken into the
Parika Police Station compound.
The
Chronicle understands that the body was buried on a sand reef and was
found by Prahalad's relatives. His
wife Marlyn Prahalad fainted several times as his body arrived at
Parika and had to be revived by family members. On Wednesday, five heavily-armed pirates staged a daring morning hijacking of the passenger boat at the `Two Brothers' shipping wharf at Parika, wounding the captain and another passenger in the process. Parika-murder-trial
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Freed 'Green-eye'
and Harka were dumped from the vessel at Leguan Island but the pirates
kept Prahalad called 'Davo' or 'Kaburi'. All
of the gunmen wore hooded cloaks with handkerchiefs wrapped around
their faces, witnesses said. One
day after the attack, the hijacked vessel was discovered at Hamburg on
the Essequibo Coast, with one of its engines missing, and relatives
feared that Prahalad had been killed. The
men were attacked around 11:30 hrs, minutes after they purchased
gasoline and were headed to the Parika stelling for a scheduled trip
to Kaituma, relatives said.
Police
Public Relations Officer, Mr. John Sauers, said the head of the 20-year-old
was found floating Thursday in a canal in a canefield aback of
Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara. The
limbs of the woman, of African descent, were also cut off, he
reported. Both
hands were severed from the wrist and both legs were cut off. Sauers
said she was found naked. The
remains are at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour in Georgetown and anyone
who can help the investigation into the murder can contact the East
Coast Police on telephone numbers 229-2700, 229-2289, 229-2569 or
229-2557 Saturday, December 11, 2004 |