Unearthed skull belongs to an adult male, bullet casings found |22 May 2015

The skull found at a new hotel construction site at Bel Ombre is that of an adult male.
Seychelles News Agency (SNA) made this revelation yesterday and added that Commissioner of Police, Ernest Quatre, confirmed that local forensic teams currently examining the skull have determined that the deceased was an adult male.

The agency also wrote that Mr Quatre also confirmed that three empty bullet casings have been found.
When Seychelles NATION contacted the police yesterday we were told that the commissioner would only comment on the issue today.

The skull was found by employees of a company contracted to landscape the grounds around the new hotel. The workers later re-buried the skull in a different location, but pictures of the original find taken by the workers surfaced through the popular social networking site Facebook on Friday last week.

SNA adds that so far two families of missing persons have officially come forward in search of whether the skull could belong to family members. Both persons are reported to have gone missing several decades ago.

Still according to the SNA, commissioner Quatre said he has also been informed that there is a third family based on Praslin who has made enquiries at their local police station about DNA testing. The missing man, originally from Praslin, is thought to have also disappeared while on the island of Mahé.

The DNA testing will be carried out overseas soon. The DNA, which can be extracted from the bones or the teeth of the skull, will then be compared to the families to see if a match can be found.
As the forensic examination of the skull is still underway, the year of death and cause of death have not yet been established.