Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

Six fish­er­men were at­tacked by gun­men at sea off Ica­cos Bay in Ce­dros on Thurs­day.

The fish­er­men were in two pirogues about three quar­ters of a mile off the coast.

Cap­tain San­jay Ma­hase, 48, and three oth­er fish­er­men were aboard one pirogue, while cap­tain Dar­ren Ramdeen and two oth­er fish­er­men were in the oth­er boat.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, around 6 am, a white ves­sel with a 200HP Yama­ha en­gine and six men armed with guns ap­proached their ves­sels, which were tied along­side a Her­itage ves­sel. The sus­pects, a lo­cal and five Venezue­lans, an­nounced a rob­bery.

Afraid for their lives, all the fish­er­men, ex­cept one, man­aged to es­cape on­to the Her­itage ves­sel. The ban­dits left with San­jay’s pirogue, which was fit­ted with a $75,000 75HP en­gine, Ramdeen and his boat.

The oth­er fish­er­men were res­cued and tak­en to the Her­itage Point Fortin Base. Po­lice lat­er re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that Ramdeen had re­turned home with his ves­sel and was in good health. Sgt Har­riper­sad of the Ce­dros Po­lice Sta­tion is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.