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Missing fisherman’s body found in mortuary with chop wounds
Dead: Salman Khan
– Phone, $150,000 missing
The agonizing search for a 21-year-old fisherman, who went missing last Saturday, ended in pain for his family, yesterday, when his body was discovered in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s mortuary.
The body of Salman Khan, of Lot 2474 Tuschen Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara (WCD) was discovered with multiple chop wounds, and it appears as if he had been beaten.
Khan was last seen alive by his mother, Bibi Khan, on Saturday when he left home around 14:30 hrs to collect his salary from his boss.
Police believe that the fisherman might have been beaten and chopped during a robbery plotted by persons known to him.
Up to press time, ranks were looking for four men, who were last seen consuming alcohol with the victim at a rum shop in Tuschen.
According to information received, police found Khan lying in an unconscious state at a bus shed in Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara (WCD) and took him to the West Demerara Regional Hospital for medical assistance.
At the time, he was registered as “unknown.” Because of the severity of the fisherman’s injuries, he had to be transferred to the GPHC.
According to records from the hospital, Khan was pronounced dead around Sunday night.
Salman Khan’s mother (right) and grandmother (centre) along with another relative.
The young man’s mother said that her son returned from sea Friday night and went to discharge the vessel Saturday morning.
“He come home and bring fish and then he ready and left home around 02:30 (PM on Saturday) to collect his money from the boss man and I never see him back,” the older Khan said in tears.
She explained that when her son did not return later that day, she called his phone around 21:00 hrs and he answered and informed her that he was with his boss and would be home shortly.
A devastated Khan said that she called her son again around 21:30 hrs but did not get a response.
After he failed to return home the following day, Khan said that she called her son’s boss and was informed that the young man left in a taxi a little after 21:00 hrs with $150,000. “When them boys go to collect their money, the boss man does buy some beers for them to drink.
The boss said that he send my son home in a taxi,” the woman said. Kaieteur News was told that the 21-year-old man was last seen in the company of four young boys from Tuschen.
Armed with this information, relatives of the young fisherman went to the police outpost at Tuschen to file a missing person report.
There, they were informed that the police had picked up two young men Saturday night after they were involved in an argument with some other people.
Salman Khan went to the station and bailed the young men out. The two boys along with Khan and two other boys were then seen drinking at the rum shop opposite the police station.
Someone at the rum shop confirmed that Khan drank a Guinness and went away with the four boys—that was the last information provided to relatives about Khan.
“We were searching for him. We went to MTV and put over a missing person report and then we went to West Demerara Regional Hospital and they said that an unidentified man was taken there Sunday night, but they transferred him to GPHC,” the older Khan said. In tears, the woman explained that she and other relatives visited the GPHC where they were told that an unidentified man was referred there Sunday night.
“They (GPHC staffers) say they have one unidentified person. He is of East Indian ancestry and has nuff tattoo. My son has tattoos. When his brother went in (mortuary) to see, it was him,” Bibi Khan stated.
The mother is determined that the four boys her son was last seen with had something to do with his death. Investigations are ongoing.
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