The theft of fuel appeared to be behind the deaths of three men in an explosion at a wharf at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara on Saturday as several laden jars were found in the trunk of a car belonging to one of the deceased

The deceased have since been identified as sixty-year-old boat captain of Beehive, Essequibo, Seepersaud Persaud; twenty-nine-year-old sailor Damion Dias of Sarah Johanna, Region Four and White Water, Region One and forty-year-old sailor, Mark Mangal of Riverstown, Essequibo Coast.

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