Farmer crushed to death under tractor

Tragedy has struck the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty of Clax­ton Bay, af­ter a farmer was found dead be­neath his trac­tor on Wednes­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the death of 52-year-old Vi­jay Har­riper­sad, whose body was dis­cov­ered by his son along a track in their gar­den at Alarack Trace, For­res Park. Po­lice be­lieve he was crushed by the trac­tor.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to the scene at around 4.30 pm and found Har­riper­sad un­re­spon­sive in his gar­den, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 180 feet from the road­way. A Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer pro­nounced him dead and or­dered that his body be tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre for a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Har­riper­sad’s fam­i­ly home, his par­ents de­clined to com­ment, say­ing they were await­ing fur­ther in­for­ma­tion from po­lice.

A post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion is ex­pect­ed to be con­duct­ed this week. Of­fi­cers from St Mar­garet’s Po­lice Sta­tion are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.