Daijiworld Media Network – Goa (MR)
By Our Special Correspondent
 
Goa, Feb 24: Goa police are waiting for the viscera report of a 16-year-old British girl whose body was fished out from a North Goa's Anjuna beach seven days back.

Police confirmed that the postmortem report conducted on the body of Scarlette Eden Keeling, who was down in Goa on a six month tourist visa, had prima facie confirmed that the death was due to drowning.

"At least till now, we assume that the cause of death was due to drowning. But still we are waiting for the Viscera report which is sent for examination to Hyderbad," Anjuna police inspector Nerlon Albuquerque tated.

The 16-year-old girl's body was fished out from Arabian Sea at Anjuna, in North Goa, on the morning of February 18.

What raised the suspicion of a foul play was that the body was semi nude. "Victim's mother approached us with the suspicion of murder and we are probing from all the angles," Albuquerque said.

Police stated that mother had visited a pilgrimage town of Gokurna few kilometers away from Goa border in neighbouring Karnataka. Girl had arrived in the state along with her mother on November 20, 2007 from Devon, UK.

Albuquerque said that there were no marks of assault or any other suspicious marks on victim's body. "We will be able to rule out foul play completely, only after viscera report is examined," he added.