Three detained for Tuschen fisherman’s murder

Jul 15, 2016 News

Dead: Salman Khan

Police have detained three persons who they believed might have information relating to the death of 21-year-old Salman Khan, who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last Sunday.
The three individuals, all from Tuschen were last seen consuming alcohol with Khan Saturday night—He was not seen or heard from since then.
Police believed that the young fisherman, who was also from Tuschen, might have been beaten and chopped during a robbery by persons known to him.
Kaieteur News understands that the cops are seeking one more individual as they continue to probe the fisherman’s death.
The body of Salman Khan was discovered with multiple chop wounds last Sunday at a bus shed in Cornelia Ida, WCD. He was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital before being transferred to the GPHC.
According to hospital records, Khan died Sunday night. His body was only identified by relatives on Wednesday at the GPHC mortuary.
The young man’s mother, Bibi Khan said that her son returned from sea last Friday night and went to discharge the vessel the following 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 dem 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.
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 convinced that the four boys her son was last seen with had something to do with his death.
Investigations are ongoing.

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