By Kurt Campbell
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[www.inewsguyana.com] –The body of 18 – year old Hassani David of Sophia who lost his life on Sunday night (February 16) remains missing.
The teen’s father has since travelled to the area to join a search party that is currently looking for the teen’s body.
David, who was an Excavator Operator working in Puruni,Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven, drown after a boat he was travelling in capsized.
According to his mother, Natasha David who spoke with iNews on Tuesday morning (February 18), her son could not swim. She said her son was the only one among several others in the boat that died.
David told iNews that her son was a first timer to the interior. He left Georgetown in December 2013 to work with a man who was well known to the family as an Excavator Operator.
