Body found in # 1 Canal trench still unidentified

Aug 12, 2018 News

One day after a male of East Indian ancestry, was fished out of a trench at Vauxhall, # 1 Canal, West Bank Demerara, the body has still not been identified.
The body was discovered on Friday around 10:30 hrs, by a resident of the area. Residents were clueless as to who the individual was. The body was

The trench where the unidentified body was found on Friday morning.

removed from the trench by undertakers from the Ezekiel Funeral Home, after which it was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where the official pronouncement on death was made.
One resident who heard of the body in the trench, came just after the undertakers had left, the man said that he had noticed a strange man traversing the area in recent times, but the individual had seemed of unsound mind.
The police in a statement detailed the man’s attire with the hope of identifying him, “an unidentifiable male East Indian clothed in an orange T-shirt, three quarter cream Cargo pants and black hat was floating face down in the middle of the trench, which runs from east to west, the body was fished out by a Detective Corporal who checked the body for marks of violence but none was seen.”
The body is presently awaiting identification and a post mortem examination.

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