Man who suffered from epilepsy found dead in canal
The lifeless body of 61-year-old Shamnarine Nowrang, called ‘Shammy’, was on Tuesday pulled from a canal at Bush Lot Corentyne, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Nowrang, who had been a farmer and resident of Number 56 Village Corentyne, had gone with his wife to visit her relatives on the previous day, and had eventually spent the evening there.
The man lying on the ground with his head in the canal
His wife Drupattie Nowrang told investigators that she and her husband had left home on Monday to attend a funeral at Bush Lot; and at about 7:00h on Tuesday, when she awoke and prepared breakfast, there was no sign of her husband. However, she had thought that he had gone for a walk around the village.
She was at the home of another relative when, at about 8:30h, she was informed that her husband was seen with his head in a trench about two houses from where they had spent the evening.
The Police, in a release, have said that Mrs Nowrang had this to say of her husband: “…is in an epilepsy case, and would often catch a seizure whenever he consumes alcohol.”
Nowrang’s body is currently at Ramo Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination.
