The body of an East Canje labourer was on Sunday morning discovered lying in the street at Canefield Village, East Canje, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Dead is Imran Ali called “Mice”, 36, of Reliance.
The discovery was made by a villager, who alerted his sister who lives just three houses away.
Fazeela Ali told this publication that she was in bed at about 06:00h when she was alerted.
“When I went I saw him on the ground, face down and I started to make some phone calls and I got my cousins and neighbours called the Police.”
According to her, when investigators arrived at the scene and turned the body over, she noticed that he was bleeding from one of his eyes.
At the time, the man still had a radio attached to his hand while his vest was half pulled over his head.
“From what I saw I think it is murder,” the grieving sister assumed.
She referred to her brother as a very willing person, noting that he did odd jobs in the community.
“He don’t be home, he always want to be out. He drinks and smokes but he does not trouble nobody when he is on the road. I don’t know if anybody would want to do anything to him,” the woman said.
Police in a release said that relatives related that they had received information that the man was sleeping on the road, which was a normal habit of his whenever he consumed alcohol.
The release also stated that at about 20:00h on Saturday, the man was seen walking through the street drinking alcohol and appeared to have been in a drunken state.
Police said that the now dead man sometimes went into an abandoned house in the street. It is in front of that abandoned house that his body was found.
This was confirmed by neighbours. The body is currently at a funeral home awaiting a post-mortem examination. Police have since launched an investigation.
