Sixth body found in Chaguaramas boating tragedy

The dis­cov­ery fol­lows a se­ries of re­cov­er­ies over the past three days as the search for those miss­ing con­tin­ued along the Ch­aguara­mas coast­line.

The first body, iden­ti­fied as 38-year-old Anil Ahy­ee, was re­cov­ered near Point Can­nings on Wednes­day morn­ing. The body of 25-year-old Ti­tus Au­gus­tine was sub­se­quent­ly found in the Scot­land Bay area that night.

Three more bod­ies were re­cov­ered on Fri­day. They in­clud­ed an uniden­ti­fied man found near Scot­land Bay, a fourth vic­tim be­lieved to be 17-year-old Kieyan­na Seechan, and a fifth body found be­tween Point Can­nings and Staubles Bay at around 1.53 pm.

The col­li­sion oc­curred around 6.30 pm on No­vem­ber 8, when two plea­sure craft col­lid­ed near Point Can­nings, throw­ing sev­er­al pas­sen­gers in­to the sea. Twen­ty-six peo­ple were in­jured.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, po­lice and Hunters Search and Res­cue Team have been in­volved in the search and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion.

The iden­ti­ty of the sixth vic­tim has not yet been of­fi­cial­ly con­firmed.