Pensioner dies after friend throws rum, sets him on fire

Investigators believe they are narrowing down a suspect in the murder of a Gasparillo pensioner who was doused with rum and set ablaze. However, no one was in custody up to yesterday regarding the death of 65-year-old Premchand Nanan, who died at the Burns Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital on Friday, four days after the attack.

While investigators were unable to interview him before his death, Nanan told his brother that he was liming and drinking Puncheon rum with someone at Bonne Aventure Road, Gasparillo.

The person asked him to purchase another bottle of rum. When he refused, the person threw rum on him and lit him afire with a cigarette lighter.

Nanan’s brother, who lived nearby, told responding officers that around 7.15 pm that night, Nanan ran into his yard naked, screaming loudly and with burns about his body.

Emergency Medical Technicians went to the house and took Nanan to the hospital, where a doctor tended to his burns. He remained at the Burns Unit in a stable condition for a few days but died at 3.02 pm on Friday.

Investigators are awaiting the result of an autopsy expected at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, this week.

Meanwhile, police are investigating the murder of Antonio Mungal, whose decomposing body was found in Brickfield, Waterloo, on Saturday. A report stated that residents heard screams around Mungal’s home along Waterloo Road around midnight. His body was then found on a river bank around noon yesterday with chop wounds.

Meanwhile, an unidentified man was found dead in Claxton Bay yesterday morning.

Police said there were several chop wounds on the man’s body as well.

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