Body found at Quart Stone Backdam

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:

Calvin Johnson, a 50-year-old Guyanese male of African descent, employed as a Security Guard with a Russian company at Quart Stone Backdam, Cuyuni River, called the Bartica Police Station at around 11:30 hours today (Monday) and reported the following:

• At about 10:00 hrs today, a female known as Uma visited the compound and informed him that a male Venezuelan national was lying dead on the roadway.
• She further stated that she received information that the man was beaten by other Venezuelan nationals.
• Upon receiving the information, Johnson said he proceeded to the scene where he observed the man lying motionless, covered with a multi-coloured hammock, with his face showing.
• He took photographs of the scene and later returned to his camp, from where he contacted the Bartica Police Station and made a report.

Detectives from Bartica Police Station are en route to the scene at Quartstone Backdam, to carry out their investigation.