A FAMILY was plunged into deep mourning on Monday evening after four of its members were fished out of the Atlantic Ocean, off Vergenoegen, hours after trekking to the foreshore to perform a one-year ritual for another family member who died last year.The dead have been identified as 53-year-old Radika Persaud of Lot 13 Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, her son 14-year-old Ravin Persaud, her nephew Billy Narine, age 12, and her niece Annatina Persaud, age nine. Narine and Persaud who are siblings lived at Lot 2402 Onderneeming, Parfait Harmonie.
Yesterday, Dularie Bhigman, Radika’s sister-in-law and aunt of the three dead children, said when she showed up at Radika’s home on the day of the incident, the woman was preparing to leave to perform the ritual.
Bhigman said that Radika asked her not to go anywhere, since she would be returning shortly, and she along with her niece and nephew and son left for ‘the riverside’, which is located a short distance away from their home.
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