Canadian citizen found dead in Tobago

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Canadian citizen found dead in Tobago

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Tobago Police cars on a crime scene - File photo by Jeff K Mayers A 43-year-old Canadian citizen's decomposing body was found inside an apartment at Dutch Fort in Tobago on February 20. Reports say the man, identified as Sean Marlon Lalal, who was renting the apartment, had no marks of violence on his body. The DMO arrived at the scene and ordered the removal of the body to the mortuary […]

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