MARGAO: A 61-year-old Canadian national, Michael Rondau was found dead in a guest house he was staying at Benaulim on Wednesday evening.
According to Colva police, the Canadian national had come to Goa around eight days ago and was staying at the Benaulim guest house since the last six days.
The national was found lying dead in his room on Wednesday evening. The police has preserved the body to the Goa Medical College and Hospital mortuary and the post mortem examination will be carried out after the arrival of officials from the Canadian embassy.
The Colva police are conducting further investigations in the case.
3-yr-old kidnapped from Margao rly stn
MARGAO: The Konkan Railway police has registered a case of kidnapping after a three-year-old minor girl child was lifted from the platform number one of Margao railway station on late Tuesday night.
Konkan railway police station in-charge, PI Harish Madkaikar informed that a husband-wife duo from Dharwad-Karnataka with four children had come to Goa on Tuesday by train and preferred to sleep at the station platform.
He said one of the children, who woke up at around 2 am on Wednesday found her sister missing and immediately informed her mother. A search was conducted at the platform in search of the missing child, before the poor family lodged a complaint at the police station. "The police has lodged a case of kidnapping as per the Supreme Court guidelines since the missing child happens to be a minor," PI Madkaikar said, while saying the police have started investigations in the case.
The CCTV footage shows a person, who was loitering around the family at the station platform, lifting away the child along with a bag. The miscreant is seen moving out of the main entrance gate with the child. "It appears that the family comes from a poor background. The husband appears a drunkard and they had come to Goa since they ran out of money and had nothing to sustain them," the police added.
