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Apr 28, 2013 News
The body of 31-year-old Dwayne Thomas has been recovered after he reportedly drowned in the Konawaruk River, Region Eight.
Brothers Quason Rover, 37 and Dwayne Thomas, 31, of Lot 66 Front Road, West Ruimveldt went missing after a boat they were in capsized about 15:00 hours on Tuesday at Tabuka Lodge Landing, Konawaruk, Region Eight.
This publication was told that at about 17:00 hours on Friday Thomas’s body was recovered in the same river where the incident occurred.
According to the police on the matter Rover, Thomas and another man were using a boat to cross the Konawaruk River, unknown to the owner.
The police said that the owner saw the men in the process and it is alleged that he started throwing missiles at the men in the boat. From all indications in the men’s efforts to evade the missiles, the brothers fell into the river and never resurfaced.
The owner of the boat was taken into police custody.
Meanwhile the men’s relatives said they have reasons to believe that foul play may have played a part in the men’s disappearance.
Another sibling of the men, Sherwin Norton, told this publication that both brothers only left for the interior on April 5, last, but would call very often.
Norton had said that he was informed that the brothers were earlier on Tuesday involved in an argument at the mining camp where they worked with other miners.
Information suggests that the men decided to leave the camp to head for the city and this may have led to a confrontation.
Norton went on to explain that he was told that his two brothers and another man were assaulted by the owners of the mining camp and were trying to escape to avoid further trouble.
“This river the people say them boys drown in is about 30 feet wide and both of them can swim so I can’t understand how they ain’t reach to the other end of the river”.
Up to press time yesterday there was still no word on the body of Quason Rover.
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