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Police probe deeper into Woolmer's suspicious death

Suspicious does not mean absolutely and totally negative: Pakistan team media manager

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CONTINUING MYSTERY: Jamaica's Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields (centre) answers a journalist's query on Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer's death, in Kingston on Tuesday. To his right is Pakistan team media manager Pervez Mir.

Kingston: The mystery surrounding the death of Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer deepened on Wednesday, with the Jamaican police declaring that the end was "suspicious" and required "full investigation."

"The autopsy report was inconclusive on the cause of the death. Having met with the pathologists and other medical personnel, there is sufficient information to continue a full investigation into the circumstances of Woolmer's death which is now being treated as suspicious," Mark Shields, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Jamaica, said in a statement.

Asked whether it could be murder, he said: "We are not saying that... We will update you on any further findings tomorrow [Thursday]."

Pakistan team media manager Pervez Mir told reporters: "Whatever information police have told us, we are accepting it. Obviously, they are investigating. They say it is suspicious death, even now they are not conclusive."

As speculation mounted about the reasons for Woolmer's death, Pakistan's Geo TV talked of "poisoning."

Woolmer's death came on Sunday, a day after Pakistan was defeated by Ireland and eliminated from the World Cup.

The former England Test batsman, aged 58, was found unconscious in his hotel room in Kingston in the morning and was rushed to the Kingston University hospital where he was declared dead.

Woolmer, based in Cape Town, South Africa, was a diabetic. He also suffered from a sleep disorder.

Ex-official dies

Meanwhile, the former Irish Cricket Union president Robert Kerr died after a suspected heart attack on Wednesday, the second fatality in four days at the World Cup. — PTI, AP

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