Pakistan said on Tuesday it expects to hear ”conclusive” word in about two weeks’ time on how national cricket coach Bob Woolmer died during the recent World Cup.
Jamaican investigators ”will take 10 to 15 days to come out with a conclusive report” on the cause of Woolmer’s death, Javed Iqbal Cheema, a senior Interior Ministry official, told reporters.
Woolmer (58) was found unconscious in his Kingston hotel room on March 18 and pronounced dead at a hospital, following Pakistan’s shock elimination from the World Cup in a loss to Ireland.
Jamaican police later said Woolmer had been strangled.
However, one of two Pakistani detectives who travelled to the West Indies to assist in the probe told The Associated Press on Monday that the investigation was so far ”inconclusive”. The detective, Mir Zubair Mahmood, said it was unclear whether Woolmer was murdered or had died of natural causes.
Cheema confirmed that, based on a briefing from the Pakistani detectives, the death remained ”unexplained”.
A senior Jamaican investigator said last week that they were trying to identify dozens of people captured by security cameras at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, where Woolmer was found dead. About 80 unidentified people were filmed on Woolmer’s floor while he and his team were staying there, according to police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields, who is heading the probe into Woolmer’s death.
Police have made no arrests.
Shields said investigators were looking into the possibility that Woolmer had been poisoned and were awaiting analysis of toxicology tests from a British lab. — Sapa-AP