Timehri septic tank tragedy: Wife died from blunt trauma from fall, husband drowned – autopsy
An autopsy performed on the body of 42-year-old Camille Dwarka proved that she died from blunt trauma to the head while the cause of death of her husband, 51-year-old Ramlall Madhoo, was given as drowning.
The post-mortem was performed by Government Pathologist, Dr Nehal Singh on Monday at the Memorial Gardens Mortuary. The bodies were handed over to the family for funeral.
A Police source related that the investigators are working with the theory that the woman might have hit her head as she fell into the tank. “It is not a case of her being murdered… it is just that she might have hit her head as she fell into the tank,” the source stated.
The couple’s lifeless bodies were pulled from a septic tank in Hype Park Timehri, East Bank Demerara (EBD), on Thursday evening. It was reported that the husband jumped into the tank to rescue his wife, who had fallen in.
It was reported that Dwarka has gone to collect her “tenny”, but due to the darkness, she allegedly walked on the septic tank, causing the cover to split in two. As a result, she reportedly fell into the tank and her head was submerged, but not before screaming for help.
Upon hearing the screams, her husband went to her rescue, and instead of waiting on assistance, he also jumped into the tank with the intention of getting her out. It is believed that due to her weight, he was unable to do so, and he drowned.
The Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Fire Service were contacted. The firefighters took about an hour to pull out the male and at least five hours to get Dwarka out.
The firemen were forced to cut a section of the septic tank in order to get the woman’s body out.
The woman’s niece, Anita Joseph, told Guyana Times that the couple had begun to live with her only about two months ago. She explained that Dwarka had initially lived with her mother a short distance away, but due to a misunderstanding, she was asked to leave the house.
As such, she had taken them in, and they had been stayed at her home until their demise.
The niece recalled on the night in question that her aunt was seemingly going to take a shower, and had decided to collect her “tenny”.
She added that it was dark and the light at the back of the house couldn’t provide brightness to where the toilet is located.
“Due to the darkness, like she end up and walking on the tank and the cover break and she fall in… Up to now we can’t say how she reach in, because of her size,” Joseph noted.
The niece added that she was sitting under the house when she heard the woman scream, and upon checking, she saw her in the tank.
“I start holler, and she husband come out fuh see she, and he jumped in to save her, to raise up she face, because she de already fall on she face, and he end up left… He start froth up, and by the time they tek he out, he already dead,” she had explained.
The couple had been married for more than 23 years, and their union had produced one daughter.