Georgetown: The badly decomposed body of one of the murdered sailors identified as Gavin Outar washed up on the Number 63 Village foreshore, Thursday.
He was positively identified by a tattoo on his body on Friday as being one of the missing fishermen from the April 27 attack in Suriname.
Reports indicate that an anonymous call to the police on Thursday led them to the body which was discovered along the beach, entangled in shrubs.
The upper and lower limbs have rotted leaving bones visible. The body was clad in a pair of cut off jeans. The face was left with its skeletal structure.
The corpse was photographed by authorities and taken away to the Skeldon Hospital Mortuary.
It is being reported that a few days ago, information was filtered to the Divisional Commander Lyndon Alves of a possible sighting of a body at the Number 36 Village shore.
A relative of a missing fisherman who was beaten, shot at and dumped overboard in the second pirate attack in Suriname waters had reported that he overheard some fishermen talking that they supposedly saw a body on the shore.
Government Pathologist, Vivikanand Bridjmohan, visited the scene to have a look. On Friday April 27, several pirates attacked four fishing boats, tying up crewmen, chopping a few of them and ordering others to transfer their catch.
One man witnessed his captain being trussed up and weighed with a battery and dumped overboard. Another saw his colleague’s arm being chopped off.
Five men survived by jumping overboard and swimming away. Days later another fishing boat was attacked with the captain killed and the others also dumped overboard.
Some 12 fishermen, all Guyanese, are still missing after the deadly attack that took place between the Suriname and French Guiana borders.
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