–due to ‘hit-and-run’ accident

A POST Mortem (PM) Examination done on Suresh Mangru, whose lifeless body was on Wednesday found on the roadway at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara, has proven that he died as a result of chest trauma resulting in multiple rib fractures.

Police had said that a vehicle had run over the 70-year-old pensioner’s chest and they were looking for the driver involved in the fatal accident.

Mangru, of Lot 35, Garden of Eden, was found with wounds to his head and right side ribs. The body was found some 400 meters from his home.
A niece, who identified herself as Bhagmattie Peters, said that she only knew that her uncle had died when police ranks visited to her home.

She said that her uncle was occupying a small room in a house located next to hers. 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,” she’d said.

The woman said that the elderly man was involved in an accident some years ago, and that that had caused him to “walk slow and shaky”. “He takes long to walk a short distance,” Peters said.

The woman and other relatives have no idea what the pensioner was doing out on the road so early.