Relatives of Hafiz Sankar, who was found dead on Pigeon Island on Saturday, find it strange that his body was discovered in a yard with a high fence and padlocked gate.
Sankar, 43, of Lot 6 Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara left home on Friday afternoon for the foreshore a short distance from his home. His father, Richard Sankar told Stabroek News yesterday, was a fisherman.
While they believe that it is possible Sankar may have died from a heart attack, Richard said, the possibility of foul play is still not being ruled out. An autopsy is to be performed this morning.
When Sankar failed to return home on Friday night his wife and children tried several times to reach him on his cellular phone. They began searching for Sankar later Friday night but he was never discovered until Saturday.
His father, Richard explained, was not a sick man and he was not a heavy drinker. It is almost “unbelievable”, he said, that Sankar would just drop dead at such an unlikely place.
“There was no marks of violence on his body and so on and he didn’t have a problem with anybody and nothing was missing from him so right now we are just waiting on the post mortem results,” Richard said.
Police in a press statement hours after the man’s body was found said that they are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death. The body, they’d said, is at the Lyken Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination.
