Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Pe­nal res­i­dents be­lieve 31-year-old Ka­mal Kaladeen was at­tacked and killed by a bi­son.

No one wit­nessed the at­tack, but Kaladeen had com­plained about the an­i­mals at­tack­ing him and a bi­son was seen roam­ing near his home.

Kaladeen, a land­scap­er, lived alone in a camp at See­bal­ack Trace, Rochard Road. His co-work­er told po­lice he dropped him home around 9.30 pm on Tues­day, but when he re­turned around 7 am the fol­low­ing day he found his life­less body on the ground be­hind the camp. There were blue-black marks on his chest.

Res­i­dents com­plained that herds of bi­son have been roam­ing the Rochard Road com­mu­ni­ty and feast­ing on crops. A 72-year-old res­i­dent, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, said he had com­plained sev­er­al times in the last year about be­ing at­tacked by the an­i­mals.

An­oth­er res­i­dent said he was not sure who owned the bi­son be­cause sev­er­al peo­ple owned an­i­mals in the area. He ap­pealed to the own­ers to se­cure their an­i­mals be­cause they are de­stroy­ing peo­ple’s liveli­hoods and are a threat to lives.

“It have chil­dren all over the place. We don’t know when they will at­tack,” he com­plained.

Res­i­dents ap­pealed to the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties, in­clud­ing the po­lice, to in­ves­ti­gate, find the own­ers and en­sure they are prop­er­ly se­cured.

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

Bar­rack­pore po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.