Canadian woman tells how she survived attack by gunman
Posted December 10, 2010 8:39 pm.
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TORONTO – A Canadian woman who saw gunmen kill her father in Honduras has made her first public comments on her ordeal in an interview with the CBC.
In an interview broadcast Friday, Myda Egrmajer (EGG’-er-my-er) said a boat with four men pulled up to the boat she and her father Milan Egrmajer were on and asked for help with their engine.
Her father provided some tools and when he tried to help one of the men close a pocket knife, one of them pulled out a handgun and shot him four times.
Milan Egrmajer left a flare gun nearby and Myda says she picked it up and waved it and started yelling at the men, who left the area.
She says she managed to figure out how to use the boat’s radio and send a mayday that was answered by the Honduran coast guard and eventually she was picked up by a passing vessel and was taken to Belize.
It’s the first time Egrmajer has talked about the ordeal, which occurred December 2.
Egrmajer went to visit her father who had been living on his boat since 2008.
Bad weather prompted them to stop at a remote lagoon known to boaters in the area as a place to overnight.
Earlier this week Honduran authorities said they have made no arrests in the killing.
