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Sep 10, 2012 News
Army ranks have launched a search for four armed pirates who attacked six fishing vessels between Waini and Cozier in the Pomeroon River and Region One on Saturday.
Three of the six boats were reportedly small vessels while the remaining three were described as large boats. Four of the boats belonged to fishermen from Meadow Bank, East Bank Demerara, while another, named “Anand”, is owned by a Pomeroon fisherman.
The two other large vessels that were attacked are called “Honey Prya and Ester”.
Devenand Singh, a fisherman who said he witnessed the recent attacks and who himself was attacked by pirates on three other occasions, related that sometime on Saturday, five boats were attacked by four armed men in the Waini, Region One and at Cozier.
Singh said the four men who were masked and armed with guns and knives were traveling in a red and white vessel that was powered by a sixty horse power engine.
Two of the victims who police said were identified as Shameer Singh, of Good-Hope, East Coast Demerara and Ramologan, of Enmore, East Coast of Demerara were rescued by fishermen on Sunday.
Singh explained that the pirates stripped the three small boats of their engines, leaving the fishermen drifting. Kaieteur News understands that the men were still to be rescued.
The other large vessels have since continued fishing. Efforts are reportedly being pursued to lend assistance to the stranded fishermen.
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