DURBAN – The family of a person who was allegedly assaulted after he misplaced his automobile and rammed a forklift last week on Piet Retief Road in Queensburgh is appealing for witnesses to come ahead. Shan Naicker, a cardiac-affected person with diabetes and high blood stress, died at St Augustine’s Hospital a few days after the incident. The sixty nine-12 months-vintage nephew, Leven Naicker, said his uncle changed on his way to the Umbilo Temple in Cato Manor on March four when the coincidence occurred.
Naicker said that from the pictures he had seen, it turned obtrusive that his uncle had misplaced control of his automobile and crashed at a Caltex garage. He stated the car hit an ATM, rolled in part again into the road, and hit a forklift. “The forklift driver ran toward the bakkie, pulled my uncle out, and beat him up. He held him by his collar, walked him through the street, and threw him directly to the verge,” he said. Naicker said the person walked back to the bakkie and moved it off the road before returning to his uncle for a 2nd time, at which point he beat him up again.
“A member of the general public tried to intervene and stop him, but he punched him in the head and his face,” he stated. Naicker said that when paramedics assessed his uncle, he changed into already in a coma. He started his own family and turned devastated and still in shock. Naicker remembered his uncle, a father of two, as a loving grandfather and one of the predominant individuals of the Umbilo Temple. He also turned very active within the community.
Naicker mentioned that his uncle “created a unique place” within the hearts of all and sundry with whom he came in contact. He appealed to witnesses to come back ahead with any data, images, or videos of the incident that could permit his own family to get some closure. “We attraction for people to come forward and assist us,” he said. Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane said a case of the commonplace attack was opened at Malvern police station once they received data that a person had allegedly been assaulted after he became concerned in a crash. “On Thursday closing week, he died in hospital, and in line with medical information, he died of herbal causes. An inquest turned into opened for similar investigation,” said Zwane.
