Pirates 'massacre' Guyana fishermen off Suriname coast

[TomSea]

Pirates 'massacre' Guyana fishermen off Suriname coast

Guyana's President David Granger has described as a "massacre" a pirate attack last week that is feared to have killed at least a dozen fishermen.

"It is a great massacre, a great tragedy," Mr Granger said on Thursday.

Four boats carrying some 20 people were attacked off the coast of neighbouring Suriname in South America last Friday, local authorities said.

The bodies of three men have since been found. Four others were said to have escaped, Reuters news agency reported.

...

   

Read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43999237

Awful and I had not heard of anything about this, in our own hemisphere off of South America.

[Fishrrman]

Sounds like a good opportunity for some U.S. Navy ships to sail down there for target practice...