Rio Claro man killed

Police received a report of an attempted break-in at about 3.30 am yesterday. When police arrived, they were told by one of the occupants of a house that a man identified as Bisnath Askaran from Riverside Road, Poole Village was struck in the head with a piece of wood as he tried to break into the house. After being hit, Askaran walked a short distance before falling into a drain. Emergency services were alerted but Askaran was pronounced dead at the scene.

His relatives gathered at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday where they said that the victim was last seen alive at his home an hour before the alleged break-in attempt. “He woke up this morning at about 2 am, and he was light-headed or something. Something happened to him and he just walked out of the house. He went by a neighbour’s house, and he knocked on the wall. Then someone said that they came out and hit him with a piece of wood in his back, but he has no injuries to his back,” a relative claimed.

Askaran was described as a person who liked to go out and drink.

Askaran was unemployed and was receiving public assistance. He was the father of a 14-year-old girl. No arrest has been made in relation to the incident and investigations are ongoing.