A Cuban fisherman has been missing for three days after setting out on a fishing trip to Santa Cruz del Norte in Mayabeque Province from Havana, according to family sources. Leonel Guerra, 74, has not returned home since he left at 4 a.m. last Thursday to fish in that area, departing from San Francisco de Paula in the Havana municipality of San Miguel del Padrón, his granddaughter Sheyla Fernández reported on Facebook.
“He didn’t come back home…” she disclosed. “We have searched hospitals, and the police are aware. The area he was supposedly headed to has also been searched.” The young woman expressed her distress, urging her followers to share her post on social media to assist in locating her maternal grandfather.
Past Incidents of Missing Fishermen
In a similar incident last August, a fisherman who had been missing was found alive, though suffering from burns all over his body, four days after setting off to fish from Playa del Chivo in Havana with a relative. Their boat was swept away by bad weather linked to a tropical storm and ended up on a beach in Artemisa, where fellow fishermen rescued them and contacted their families.
Earlier this year, after an extensive search, fisherman Jacinto Octavio Rivero Li and young Alexander Turiño Nualla from Cienfuegos were found safe. They had disappeared after going fishing when strong winds and waves carried their boat adrift for five days. They eventually reached Cayo Cigua in the southern part of Matanzas Province, where they were discovered.