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Woolmer death treated as murder | Woolmer death treated as murder |
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Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered in his hotel room on Sunday after the team's World Cup loss to Ireland, Jamaican police said. | |
A post-mortem examination found that Mr Woolmer's death was due to "asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation". | |
"In these circumstances, the matter of Mr Woolmer's death is now being treated as murder," Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas said in a statement. | |
Police have appealed for any witnesses to come forward. | |
The statement was read by a police spokesman at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel - where Mr Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious by staff on Sunday morning. | |
Mark Shields, the deputy chief commissioner of Jamaican police, said there could be one or more people involved in the murder and urged the killer or killers to give themselves up. | |
Earlier, Jamaican police questioned members of Pakistan's cricket squad over the death. | Earlier, Jamaican police questioned members of Pakistan's cricket squad over the death. |
After being intervewed for about an hour and fingerprinted, the team left for the resort of Montego Bay. | |
They are due to return to Pakistan on Saturday. They were not interviewed under caution. | They are due to return to Pakistan on Saturday. They were not interviewed under caution. |