Hours be­fore pen­sion­er Am­i­na Mo­hammed was killed by armed men dur­ing a dead­ly home in­va­sion on Sat­ur­day night in Cou­va, a Mar­aval man was killed in a sim­i­lar man­ner.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Bertram Green­away.

Po­lice said around 8 am Sat­ur­day a rel­a­tive went to the 68-year-old’s home at Her­rera Trace, Le Plat­te, Mar­aval, to drop a meal for him and no­ticed the food she dropped on Fri­day was still on the front porch. When she opened the door she found Green­away on the liv­ing room floor with blood around him.

The rel­a­tive con­tact­ed the po­lice. Of­fi­cers said the re­tiree was stabbed in his throat.

They sus­pect rob­bery was the mo­tive.

Poi­soned cof­fee leaves hunter dead

A hunt­ing trip among nine friends end­ed abrupt­ly af­ter 65-year-old hunter Vish­nu Dipchan died af­ter con­sum­ing what is be­lieved to have been poi­soned cof­fee.

The men had gone to hunt four miles in the Cushe for­est, Rio Claro.

The rel­a­tive told po­lice around 7.30 pm, five of the hunters con­sumed cof­fee and soon be­gan ex­pe­ri­enc­ing nau­sea and vom­it­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said his rel­a­tives had to go in­to the for­est to help the hunters af­ter they start­ed to feel nau­seous af­ter con­sum­ing the drink. The men were res­cued from in­side the for­est off Le­gendre Road in Ec­clesville. All of the hunters were trans­port­ed to the Rio Claro Health Cen­tre, where Dipchan was found un­re­spon­sive and died short­ly be­fore mid­night. Po­lice say they are now con­sid­er­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of homi­cide or poi­son­ing.

Hunters Bas­deo Ramb­harose, Jag­ger­nath Ram­nath, Ar­joon Per­sad, and Ra­jku­mar Baksh—were trans­ferred to San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal for fur­ther treat­ment while Rafi Baksh, Sha­ban Khan, Nav­ish Ramb­harose, and Sal­im Khan were treat­ed and dis­charged.

Po­lice seized sam­ples of wa­ter, cof­fee, and sug­ar from the camp. Homi­cide Re­gion 3 of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.