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Three missing after dropped off at No. 63 Beach sand...

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called my brother-in-law he told me that he going and look for her, that my aunty called and say she is not getting on to granny phone anymore.”

She said her relatives then met Samaroo’s and Joseph’s relatives at the location conducting a search.

“The other lady [Hussain] that was with my grandmothe­r called her son and told him that they surrounded by water and they not seeing any land,” an emotional Valdez said yesterday as she hugged a post.

Valdez, who will be celebratin­g her birthday today, noted that she last spoke to her grandmothe­r on Sunday and the woman told her that she missed home and would be returning soon.

Further, she said, her grandmothe­r also stated that the boat she traveled over to Suriname with “got hold up” and she would return with another boat “but in the night.”

The young woman said she advised her grandmothe­r not to travel at night.

Valdez yesterday stressed, that she is also hopeful that they would find her grandmothe­r alive.

Meanwhile, Joseph’s cousin, Narinee Shamsundar, said she last spoke to her cousin on Monday evening around 7 pm when he told her that he would be heading to Guyana. “When abe here he drop off and abe send to pick he up, abe na get through with he,” she said.

She continued, “He called my brother and told him that he reach and my brother called and he say them just drop he off a 63 Beach but when abe send fa look for them abe na find him.”

The woman noted that Joseph would often travel to Guyana and has a wife and child in Suriname.

The police and coast guard have since asked the families to identify one relative each that would accompany them on another search this morning.

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