A man who was found se­vere­ly beat­en in Port-of-Spain dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Thurs­day, re­mained hos­pi­talised in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion yes­ter­day.

The uniden­ti­fied East In­di­an man was found near Vic­to­ria Square around 2.45 am.

Of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Task Force re­spond­ed to re­ports that a body was seen at the cor­ner of Duke and Vic­to­ria Streets, and lat­er found the vic­tim un­re­spon­sive.

He was wear­ing a long blue pants and a blue jer­sey and was de­scribed as five feet, eight inch­es tall; with a short hair­style, mous­tache, short beard, grey­ing hair, and an oval face.

The vic­tim was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was treat­ed for cra­nial and spinal in­juries, along with in­ter­nal bleed­ing.

He was lat­er ward­ed and placed in an in­duced co­ma, and re­mained in that con­di­tion up to last evening.

A bloody wood­en stick, es­ti­mat­ed to be about four feet long, and be­lieved to be the weapon used in the at­tack, was re­cov­ered close to the vic­tim by of­fi­cers.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion as the vic­tim’s iden­ti­ty are asked to con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion.

—An­na-Lisa Paul