Fisherman pulled from Corentyne River: Autopsy shows man died from drowning

An autopsy conducted on the body of the man who was pulled out of the Corentyne River on Wednesday afternoon has revealed that he died from asphyxia and drowning.
The autopsy was done by Government pathologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan.
Police on Thursday released the identity of the man, saying it was 22-year-old Tamesh Takurdin, a fisherman of Number 65 Village, Corentyne.
According to the police, Takurdin, along with three other fishermen, was in a boat on Wednesday afternoon just off the Corentyne coast when the boat reportedly capsized.
As a result, the young man disappeared into the murky water, and his lifeless body was found by several residents some 90 minutes later at the mouth of the Number 65 Channel.

The body was examined for marks of violence, but none were seen. The police reported that froth was observed oozing from his nostrils and mouth.
The boat captain, who was subsequently arrested the same day, remains under questioning.
However, despite the police report of three persons in the vessel when it capsized, Takurdin’s relatives told this publication that the 22-year-old and the boat captain were the only two occupants in the boat at the time it capsized.
According to the fisherman’s sister, Kavina Takurdin, he worked as a boat builder and had gone to work at the boat landing at Number 65 Village.
According to Kavina, they were only informed of the incident sometime after. “I didn’t believe. “Until I see my brother, then I believe,” she recalled.
Meanwhile, Takurdin’s 17-year-old wife, Radika Sookdeo, said her husband did not come home for lunch, and she could not get on to him by phone. Hours later, she was told that he fell overboard and could not be found.

According to the now teenage widow, she was told that her husband was repairing a boat during the day. She said he was working on a speedboat which had leaks.
“He was putting cork on the boat bottom – and another boy, he drank [intoxicated], and he went in the boat and started up the boat, and my husband told him to wait, but he didn’t wait. My husband told him that he wasn’t going. He said that he wanted to come off the boat, but the boy didn’t wait; he drove off the boat,” she claimed.
Both the sister and wife described Takurdin as being a kind person who never consumed alcohol and was committed to his family.
He was the eldest of four siblings. Takurdin and his wife were married for just over five months and have no children.
Family members remain, however, suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the death of the young boat builder and called for a deeper probe into his death.