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A 59-year-old handyman from Maracas died on Tuesday evening in a suspected drowning incident at the Maracas Bay estuary.

Police identified the victim as Lakhan Ramsingh of LP 4, North Coast Road, Maracas.

At around 7 p.m., Ramsingh was liming and drinking alcohol with a friend, Joseph Kangalee, in the Maracas Bay fishing village. Kangalee told police he briefly left to attend to a pot on the fire, but on his return, he discovered Ramsingh missing.