Police investigates suspicious death in Guadalcanal

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Tetere are investigating the suspicious death of a 43-year-old male person on 12 December at a village close to Guadalcanal Plains Palm Oil Limited (GPPOL) III area.

Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Guadalcanal Province, Chief Superintendent Rodney Kuma said the deceased’s body was found at the oil palm plantation boundary near their village which is close to the GPPOL III area.

Kuma said that the deceased is from Temotu province who resides with his family and his cousin brother who is married to a woman from Guadalcanal province.

Kuma said that before they found his body, the deceased told his cousin brother that he would be going up to GPPOL III for some personal business matters.

However he said later in the afternoon on the same day they discovered the deceased on the oil palm plantation not far from the village.

The deceased had been transported to the National Referral Hospital for postmortem which will form part of the police investigation.

“On behalf of the police, I would like to share my condolences to the family of the deceased for the loss of their loved one,” said Kuma.

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