A pungent smell which affected neighbours for days has led to the discovery of a body which was buried under a bridge in the vicinity of the Schuler and Gomes Optical Services building on Brickdam.
A neighbour at the scene told the Guyana Standard that at the weekend, the smell started to emanate from the place of business but was not taken seriously at first.
“Since Sunday you started to smell this thing and we all thought it was some kind of animal that probably died but today it was too unbearable. The smell was horrible. We complained to Mr. Gomes and he decided to start cleaning,” the neighbour said.
The eyewitness said that it was during the cleaning that the occupants of the house discovered that the smell might have been coming from the drain. “They started to clean the drain and realised something was wrong. I saw a couple hours after the police turned up at the scene and said it was a body.”
Detectives were seen on the scene trying to access the body from under the bridge. It was subsequently removed and taken to a parlour for assessment.
