Autopsy confirms Abdul Rahman died due to injuries to head

Maldives Police Service says autopsy results have confirmed that the elderly man from AA. Maalhos, who died over two weeks back following a brutal attack as he slept in his home, died as a result of injuries to his head.

Abdul Rahman Adam, 65, Orchidmaage in AA. Maalhos, was rushed to the local health center at around 01:50 am on July 13 after he was found bleeding in his bedroom. According to the police, he was inflicted “serious injuries” while he was sleeping in his home, and died a couple of hours later at the local health center.

His body was sent to the Indian city of Trivandrum on July 21 for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. It was transported back to the Maldives on July 23, and buried in Male’ City the next day.

Police, in a message to the media on Thursday, said Abdul Rahman’s preliminary autopsy report confirms he died as a result of injuries to his head. No further details were disclosed.

Prior to this, Police have stated he was inflicted "serious injuries" to his head. As such, this is not new information.

Police have made no arrests in the case 18 days since the murder.

Abdul Rahman and his wife Nazima Ibrahim, a council assistant at the Maalhos Council, had been living alone at the time of the murder. The couple has three children, two of whom reside in other islands. Meanwhile, the third, an ambulance driver for the Maalhos Health Center, had been away in Male’ at the time of the murder.

Abdul Rahman was a fisherman, and was often away from home working on fishing boats from other islands.

His son, Ahmed Nimal told Sun that his parents slept in separate rooms on Saturday night. His mother woke up from her sleep to the sound of someone running out of the house.

She looked out of her bedroom to find the main door to the house ajar.

“She went into my father’s room and found so much blood,” said a distraught Nimal.

Nimal told Sun that the house has two doors, one of which is usually left unlocked.

Nimal said that he cannot think of anyone who could have committed such a horrific act, neither can he think of anyone who harbored resentment or any ill will towards his father.

This feeling of bewilderment is echoed by local residents, who report that Abdul Raheem and his family lived a simple life, and cannot think of anyone who had a grudge against him or any possible motivation for his murder.