An undocumented Bangladesh national was found dead with severe head injuries at an uninhabited house in Laamu Atoll Gan Island, Maldives yesterday, reports UNB. Ishag Yoosuf, the 65-year-old caretaker of the house, said he found the farm worker’s body at 7:00am (local time). He is known as Bassan, reports the Minivan News. “I went to pick up some tools to paint my house. Bassan was lying face up on the veranda. His face was covered with a pillow. The pillow was all bloodied. The right side of his face was smashed in. Blood was splattered allover the walls up to 8 feet,” he said.
Bassan, a tall dark man in his late 20s, has worked in the Maldives for 10 years, Ishag said.
The caretaker had last spoken to Bassan on Tuesday, but said he had not reported any problems.
“He told me he had asked the owner who is living in Malé if he could sleep in the house. There’s no toilet there. Only the veranda he could sleep in. He said he was eating fine. Apparently he had paid a company to get food,” Ishag said.
The owner of the house, Thoha Waheed, denied Bassan had asked for permission to sleep at the vacant house.
“I don’t know how he came to live there. I know the man, but he never asked me to let him stay at the house,” he said.
The police said the murder occurred 24 hours before the body was discovered. The serious and organized crime department is investigating the case.
Bassan’s death is the third apparent murder of Bangladeshi workers this year. In March 22, a 25-year-old Bangladeshi named Shaheen Mia was stabbed to death in a Malé café.
Some 124,000 immigrant workers live in Maldives, the immigration department has said. Some 30,000 are not documented.