Highlands Tragedy: Few People Interviewed, CCTV Footage Obtained From Multiple Sites
We brought in a few people, some as witnesses and some for interrogation: Police
Tuesday 10 September 2019 | 23:26
Police officers at the crime scene in the Nausori Highlands where five bodies were found. INSET: Police officers remove one of the bodies from the crime scene. Photos: Waisea Nasokia / Police Media Cell
Police are combing through footage from different CCTV cameras as they try to solve the deaths of five people whose bodies were found in the Nausori Highlands.
A Police officer familiar with the investigation said the footage starts from a CCTV camera outside a supermarket in Votualevu, Nadi.
The bodies of Nirmal Kumar, 63, his wife Usha Kumar, 54, their daughter Nileshni Kajal, 34, and her daughters, Sanah, 11, and Samarah, 8, were found at the Nausori Highlands in the morning of August 26.
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A post-mortem revealed that the five people died after ingesting some kind of chemical and further tests are being carried out to ascertain what it was.
The Kumar’s granddaughter, one-year-old Samaira was found near the bodies and it is believed that her cries led a villager to the scene.
Mr Kumar’s car was found parked outside the supermarket a few hours after the bodies were discovered.
It was revealed to the Fiji Sun earlier that soon after his car parked outside the supermarket at about 9 am on August 25, a white car drove up and parked next to it.
The occupants of Mr Kumar’s car reportedly got off, took something out from the boot and got into the car that parked next to them and left.
Dead...Nileshni Kumar and her two daughters Sana and Samara.
The deaths of the five members of a family from Legalega in Nadi is being called as the “witchcraft case” in some corners and is a much-talked-about thing at many gatherings.
Edited by Jonathan Bryce
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