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Oct 27, 2019 News
Keion Paul, 17, also known as “Boyzie”, died by drowning just after midday, Friday. He was the son of popular Puruni Gold Miner, Kemton Paul.
“Boyzie” at the time of the tragedy, was with three other males and about four foreign women, all walking through an area of open abandoned water filled mining pits aback a popular shop on the Puruni Landing when one of the women in the group accidentally fell into one of these pits.
“Boyzie” then jumped into the pit after her, in an attempt to rescue her, but he then also encountered difficulties.
A man who was in the group nearby then went into the pit after the duo, and was successful in getting the woman to safety, but after assessing that “Boysie” was able to stay afloat longer, he was late in returning to further assist “Boyzie” who by then had disappeared below the surface of the water.
Residents were then alerted and immediately mobilised themselves into a search party. They used an excavator to create an outlet for the water level in the pit while others dragged cords with hook-like contraptions at the end of these cords.
This exercise continued without success until nightfall, Friday, when the search was suspended.
Boyzie’s Father Kempton kept watch the entire night as the water level was slowly receding, when about dawn on Saturday, he saw the body surfacing.
It was later transported out to Bartica, and then transferred to a Georgetown Mortuary for a post mortem examination next Wednesday.
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