Road accidents and drowning, five deaths for Mother's Day

13 years, 6 months ago - 30 May 2011
Road accidents and drowning, five deaths for Mother's Day
Police have been busy this Sunday, May 29 Five deaths have been recorded throughout the island. The medical examiner has conducted three autopsies during the day, having had to consider four other corpses who happen to be natural cases.

Police have been busy during this Sunday's Mother's Day. Five deaths were recorded at 18.30. Three deaths caused by road accidents, a fisherman drowned in a pond, a man's body was discovered behind the branch of the State Bank of Pamplemousses.

The taxi driver involved in the collision Cascavelle Monday, May 23 died of sepsis secondary to his multiple injuries early in the morning.

For his part, Prem Bookaram, a scavenger of 50 years died when a 4x4 is out of his way and pushed him against his dump truck. At that moment he operated the levers to compress the garbage.

And heard the rushing noise of the accident, his colleagues have found lying in a pool of blood. He breathed his last on way to hospital. The driver, a northerner was arrested, police on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol.

Towards 0800, in Vacoas, Ridday Deepchand, 69, died when a 4x4 is passed over by reversing. He left his home when the vehicle hit him. The driver continued to move without knowing that the unfortunate lay on the ground. He too was arrested.

In the afternoon to 13:50, it was the turn of the police Baie du Tombeau being sought by relatives of Jean Bernard Boccus says Dario. This fisherman of 44 years died in a swampy area of ??River Lemon, behind the old apartments of Dockers' Flats.

Divers from Task Force of the Mauritius Police (GIPM) have been asked to remove his corpse stuck. It took over an hour to frogmen to remove the gangue.

Boccus desired, a cousin says Dario, a resident of Ste-Marie, had gone to retrieve fish for bait before a fishing trip in the afternoon of Saturday, May 28 It was only around 1:00 p.m. that the family was concerned about his absence, not seeing him return.

A search was conducted and his body found in swamps. At the beginning, Desire believed to have fallen on another corpse, but he had the same clothes as Dario when he left the family home Saturday.

At 19h past, neighbours had erected a green room before his miserable box sheet and tried to install an electrical connection to illuminate the wake. They will not until this morning to retrieve the remains. 

The autopsies of the angler and that the corpse found behind the State Bank of Pamplemousses will be conducted this Monday, May 30 The fact is that the chief forensic police, Dr Sudesh Kumar Gungadin made seven post-mortem examinations, four cases were found to be natural and the dead taxi driver, the garbage collector and the retiree died from injuries sustained in road accidents.