Venezuelan man found dead at Quart Stone Backdam

Police have launched an investigation into the death of a Venezuelan national whose body was discovered on Monday at Quart Stone Backdam, Cuyuni River, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). According to reports, a 50-year-old security guard employed by a Russian company in the area, contacted the Bartica Police Station around 11:30h to report the incident.

The man told police that at about 10:00h, a woman known as only as ‘Uma’ visited the company’s compound and informed him that a male Venezuelan national was lying dead on the roadway. She also relayed that she had received information suggesting the man was beaten by other Venezuelan nationals. The security said that he went to the location and observed the man lying motionless on the roadway, covered with a multi-coloured hammock, with his face exposed. He took photographs of the scene before returning to his camp, from where he contacted the Bartica Police Station.
Police said that detectives have since been dispatched to Quart Stone Backdam to investigate the circumstances surrounding the man’s death.