Latest update April 7th, 2025 6:08 AM
Elderly man found dead with needle in his hand
The lifeless body of an unidentified man was yesterday morning discovered on the pavement of Muneshwer’s Limited, at lot 19 – 20 Commerce Street,
According to a source, the body was discovered around 7:00 hours by stallholders who work in the vicinity and employees of the said enterprise.
The man’s body on the pavement yesterday.
“Well they does got a set a dem sleeping out here when the night come but by 5:30 when the market pick-up with people coming to put out there stalls we does wake them up,” a stallholder said.
The stallholder added that when a worker of the enterprise began waking vagrants who were asleep on the pavement, the man was unresponsive. “He touched him a couple a times and called out at him but he didn’t move. Then we realize that the man was lifeless,” an eyewitness said.
When Kaieteur News arrived at the scene, the lifeless body was still on the pavement.
The wrist of the dead man bore a small transparent tube wrapped with tape an indication that the man was in a medical institution being transfused with intravenous fluids.
People said that the man might have escaped from the Georgetown Public Hospital where he may have been a patient.
The body had no visible marks of violence.
“Nobody ain’t do him nothing how he fall asleep is just so he left,” a stall holder said.
The man who is of East Indian decent, between the ages of 65 and 70 is currently at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour awaiting identification.
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