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Families heartbroken as bodies of three divers recovered

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Radhica De Silva
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An unidentified family member of one of the missing divers weeps as she awaits information outside the Paria Fuel Trading Company  Ltd in Ponte-a-Pierre, yesterday.

An unidentified family member of one of the missing divers weeps as she awaits information outside the Paria Fuel Trading Company Ltd in Ponte-a-Pierre, yesterday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

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The bod­ies of three of the four divers who were stuck in a Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny pipe have been re­cov­ered.

Paria made the an­nounce­ment yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter in­form­ing fam­i­ly mem­bers.

“It is with deep sad­ness that we an­nounce the re­cov­ery of the bod­ies of three of the four divers who went miss­ing on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2022. The bod­ies of these three miss­ing divers were re­cov­ered to­day (Feb­ru­ary 28, 2022) around 5.55 pm,” the com­pa­ny said.

It added that at­tempts to re­trieve the fourth body were still on­go­ing.

The com­pa­ny said it was join­ing the fam­i­lies in mourn­ing their loss “and is con­tin­u­ing to pro­vide sup­port and coun­selling as they deal with this pro­found loss.”

“No ef­fort was spared in the at­tempts to treat the bod­ies with the ut­most re­spect dur­ing the re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion. A full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the in­ci­dent will be un­der­tak­en to un­der­stand the root cause of the in­ci­dent,” Paria added.

As news of the deaths of four divers be­came a re­al­i­ty, the Paria car park in Pointe-a-Pierre be­came filled with wails of an­guish last night.

Div­er Rishi Nages­sar’s el­der­ly rel­a­tive had to be placed on a chair as he went limp with grief.

“Oh gosh Rishi, you gone boy. Just Sat­ur­day you come by the house,” the el­der­ly man bawled.

A fe­male rel­a­tive of Yusef Hen­ry be­gan shout­ing, “I fed up. I don’t want to see any­body. Is an­swers we want.”

A security from Paria Fuel Trading Company Ltd asks family members of the missing divers to move from the entrance of the compound after they tried to storm the compound yesterday.

A security from Paria Fuel Trading Company Ltd asks family members of the missing divers to move from the entrance of the compound after they tried to storm the compound yesterday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

In the dark­ness of the car park, tears flowed freely. One woman sat on the tray of a van sob­bing loud­ly.

Branch pres­i­dent of the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union Christo­pher Jack­man told Guardian Me­dia at 7 pm that three of the four bod­ies had been re­trieved. The bod­ies were re­port­ed­ly cov­ered with oil and were ly­ing on a Coast Guard ves­sel.

Jack­man went to the clus­ters of rel­a­tives who gath­ered in the car park and in­vit­ed them to a lo­ca­tion to view the bod­ies.

A heav­i­ness hung in the air and even so­cial me­dia ac­tivists who had been with the fam­i­ly since the dis­ap­pear­ance cried.

Around 5 pm, the pres­i­dent of the First Wave Move­ment Umar Ab­du­lah at­tempt­ed to con­trol a mob of an­guished rel­a­tives who tried to storm in­to Paria’s com­pound.

They pushed through the gates de­mand­ing that Paria of­fi­cial meets with them to pro­vide up­dates.

“It’s three days we wait­ing,” the wife of Yusuff Hen­ry cried.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley lat­er is­sued a state­ment con­firm­ing the deaths.

“Even as we prayed and hoped for a mir­a­cle, it was not to be. In this pe­ri­od of great loss and deep trau­ma for all the fam­i­lies and the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, I ex­tend sin­cer­est con­do­lences to all their loved ones,” Dr Row­ley said.

He added, “I want to give the as­sur­ance to the fam­i­lies that noth­ing will stand in the way of de­ter­min­ing how this tragedy oc­curred.”

Vehicles bearing the bodies of the dead divers leave the compound of Paria Fuel Trading Company in Pointe-a-Pierre last night.

Vehicles bearing the bodies of the dead divers leave the compound of Paria Fuel Trading Company in Pointe-a-Pierre last night.

RISHI RAGONATH

The Prime Min­is­ter al­so said, “I al­so want to com­mit to them that all that has to be done by Paria and its as­so­ciates in this mat­ter will be pro­fes­sion­al­ly ex­e­cut­ed start­ing with the al­ready an­nounced in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing the best pro­fes­sion­al and tech­ni­cal ex­per­tise avail­able to the coun­try.”

“It is in times like these that we are called up­on to be car­ing and com­fort­ing and I have every con­fi­dence that our na­tion will not be found want­i­ng,” Dr Row­ley said.

How­ev­er, rel­a­tives of the dead divers say they will seek le­gal re­course.


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