A POST-MORTEM performed on the remains of murdered miner, Rishada Dusrajh, 29, of Kitty, yesterday revealed that he died of an incised wound to the throat.The body also bore several chops and other marks of violence.

One person who confessed to the murder, has since been charged for the murder, appeared at the Bartica Magistrates Court and was remanded until August 26, 2015.

Initially, police arrested three men, two of whom claimed that they assisted in transporting the body from the mining camp to the abandoned pit, where it was anchored and dumped.

The men have been identified as colleagues of the deceased, the main suspect and Dusrajh called “Tali or Taliban,” used to oversee operations of the mining camp at Oku Backdam, Puruni.

Detectives were told that the main suspect and the victim had a falling out and it was he who hacked Dusrajh to death, but they assisted in transporting the body after which it was dumped.

A relative of the deceased, who wished not to be named, told this publication that they first chopped Dusrajh to his face around3:30 pm on Saturday last following an argument after a drinking spree.

She added that the men returned to drinking and left Dusrajh in the camp sleeping. When they returned later that evening, he was dealt multiple chops about the body, after which he was tied up and anchored by a wheel in an abandoned mining pit some distance away by his fellow miners.

It was after he was reported missing on Monday that the dredge owner journeyed to the interior location where he launched a search and found the body. He then informed the man’s relatives and the police and the suspects were arrested by public-spirited citizens and miners and handed over to the police.

The dredge- owner however, related to relatives of the deceased that with the amount of blood he observed at the mining camp, it was impossible for Dusrajh to be alive and initiated a search for his body.

The relative told this publication that Dusrajh had been unmarried and this time he stayed about a year in the interior without visiting, but would often call via cellphone.

She explained that he would stay by her whenever he came out of the “bush” after a few months but would sometimes go to their hometown in Essequibo, where her mother and brother reside.

Dusrajh spoke to his mother on Mother’s Day and his sister a few weeks ago and relatives first learnt that he was missing when a friend telephoned them to report that he was missing and that something had happened to him.

She said he was a soldier but had left the army, after which he went to work in the interior as a miner. He however obtained employment with a private security firm, but after some time he returned to the interior where he spent most of his time working.

Police in a press release said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of miner Rishada Dusrajh, 29, of Station Street, Kitty, whose body was found in an abandoned mining pit at Oku Backdam, Puruni, on July 28, 2015, with a wound to his throat.

Three men are in police custody assisting with the investigations.

This year, the Guyana Police Force has so far recorded 29 disorderly murders which took place mostly in the interior, while in 2014 they had tallied 15, which shows an 81% increase in such murders.