Bullet-riddled body recovered from boat
Slain Canadian's Ontario relatives shaken
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This article was published 06/12/2010 (5583 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Officials have recovered the bullet-riddled body of a Canadian man who was shot to death by pirates in Honduras.
Milan Egrmajer, 58, and his daughter Myda Egrmajer, 24, had been cruising the Caribbean Sea when bad weather forced them to take shelter in a lagoon near the northern town of Tela on Thursday.
Pirates boarded the ship and shot Milan four times while Myda hid.
Milan’s body has since been recovered from his sailboat, which lay capsized off the Honduran coast.
A Canadian consul for Honduras was present as officials recovered Egrmajer’s body, La Prensa newspaper reported Sunday, although Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Laura Markle could not confirm any details concerning Myda’s return to Canada.
Egrmajer’s body is being transferred to the morgue in San Pedro Sula before repatriation, according to the newspaper.
Abelino Gomez, head of the country’s National Office of Criminal Investigation, told La Prensa Sunday that pirates looted the vessel of food, electronics and money.
Eric van Riesen, Myda’s cousin, said she managed to frighten the pirates off by firing a flare gun.
“She’s a brave girl,” van Riesen said.
He said she was travelling from Belize to her mother’s home in Northern Ontario.
Other family members were gathering there to await her return, said Marian Hester, another of Myda’s cousins.
The small family and community are shaken, she said. “It’s a little surreal,” Hester said.
Myda was stranded alone, and with no previous sailing experience, she endured hours of terror in seas so heavy that, according to Nelson Varela, commander of the naval base of La Ceiba, the Honduran navy did not dare attempt a rescue, La Prensa reported.
Despite a series of frantic 911 calls and Myda’s flare on Thursday, no help arrived until Friday morning, when a passing vessel rescued her, taking her to Belize, van Riesen said.
Van Riesen said he wondered why a civilian vessel was able to save Myda while rescue vessels were not.
— Postmedia News