THE police have reportedly arrested a man and seized an abandoned vehicle in connection with the discovery of the body of 51-year-old Mustak Alli of Annandale South, East Coast Demerara on the Courbane Park roadway, on the East Coast of Demerara.
Alli’s body has since been taken to the Lyken Funeral Parlour, where an autopsy would be performed to ascertain the cause of his death.
Police ranks are treating Alli’s death as a ‘hit and run incident,’ and reports reveal that sleuths are planning to review footage taken from a nearby surveillance camera to help with their investigations.
Meanwhile, 56-year-old Imran Mohamed was reportedly struck and killed by a lorry on the De Willem Public Road, West Coast Demerara, when he tried to cross the road on his bicycle.
He was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), but later succumbed to his injuries.
The driver of the motor vehicle is in police custody assisting with the investigations.
(By Alex Wayne)