Pensioner’s lifeless body found on roadway

May 04, 2017 News

– Cops await PM to determine cause of death

Police are awaiting a Post Mortem (PM) Examination to pronounce on the death of 70-year-old Suresh

Dead: Suresh Mangru

Mangru whose lifeless body was found on the roadway at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara, early yesterday.
The dead man has been identified as Suresh Mangru of 35 Garden of Eden. He was found at around 04:30 hrs with a wound to his head and right side ribs.
While the pensioner’s injuries are consistent with those of a vehicular accident, traffic ranks who responded to the call said that a possibility exists that the elderly man might have been murdered and his corpse was placed on the roadway.
Kaieteur News was informed that no debris was found on the roadway to suggest it was an accident.
“There was just a little blood around his head. His body seemed as though it was neatly placed there,” a police source said, while adding that it could also be a case where the pensioner fell and hit himself “real hard.”
The body was found some 400 meters from his home.
When this newspaper visited the man’s home yesterday, a niece, who identified herself as Bhagmattie Peters, said that she only knew that her uncle had died when police ranks went to her home yesterday morning.
She indicated that her uncle was occupying a small room in the house located next to her home.
Peters said that Mangru consumed a lot of alcohol, but in recent times, he had stopped.
“He got old and sickly so he de ease up de drinking. He does be in his room and his nephew family does give him food.”
The woman said that the elderly man was involved in an accident some years ago which caused him to “walk slow and shaky.” “He takes long to walk a short distance.”
The woman and other relatives have no idea what the pensioner was doing out on the road so early.
Kaieteur News was informed that the man has children, but his relatives do not know where they are living and claimed that they have not visited Mangru for quite some time.
“We don’t know where they are and we don’t know if they know he died,” one relative said, while adding that no one has any contact details for his children.
A post mortem will be done on Monday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

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