A local man in seventies living alone was found dead yesterday morning at his home in a residential building on Rua do Templo Lin-Fong, according to a Judiciary Police (PJ) statement.
PJ spokesman Lei Hon Nei said in the statement that the police were notified by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) of the death at 10:20 a.m. yesterday. Lei said that the case has preliminarily been classified as a dead body found.
The statement quoted the victim’s sister as saying that she had been unable to contact the victim since Saturday, and she reported the case to the police yesterday morning and contacted the landlord.
Firefighters found the victim lying on his bed, and later confirmed that the man had died, the statement noted.
The statement noted that the victim had no injuries that could have been caused by foul play, but the cause of the victim’s death was pending the outcome of a forensic examination.
