Businessman Eric Sooklal was a predictable man, his relatives said yesterday.
He rose early every morning to join his wife on a walk at Palmiste pastures, near their Roberts Road, Philippine, home.
Sooklal would then leave home for his business place at Duncan Village, San Fernando. He would feed the dogs and then return home for breakfast.
’So when he did not return home, we got worried. My mother called everyone. We were in Tobago, so we came home and immediately launched a search,’ his step-daughter, Anita Goonoo-Lochan, said.
Sooklal, 73, was reported missing five days ago.
Goonoo-Lochan said relatives mounted a search and found Sooklal’s van in an abandoned canefield off the M2 Ring Road the following day. The cab of the vehicle was burnt.
’Since then, we have been searching for him and cannot find any clues. We have gotten no ransom calls, so we don’t know what to think,’ she said.
Sooklal, a father of four, recently underwent triple bypass surgery, Oropoche East MP Mickela Panday said yesterday. ’He needs to take his medication and I am appealing to anyone who has him to please release him,’ she said.
Goonoo-Sooklal said her 65-year-old mother was in agony and begged for anyone with information to contact the police.
The Anti-Kidnapping Squad is continuing investigations.
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