🇲🇺 Vacoas hit-and-run kills a father coming home from his night shift

Vacoas hit-and-run kills a father coming home from his night shift

Vishesh Calleea, 35, was crossing the road at La Marie, near the Takamaka bridge in Vacoas, in the early hours of Friday when an SUV struck him and drove off. An ambulance rushed him to Victoria Hospital in Candos, where he did not survive. Officers found vehicle debris scattered at the scene. By that evening the Divisional Crime Investigation Unit had arrested Mohammed Nafeez Dilloo, 26, on suspicion of driving the car.

Calleea worked two jobs to keep his family going. Days at a car dealership, evenings as a security guard out in Vacoas, a shift he had only just taken on. He leaves a son aged seven.

His father, Sunil Calleea, had warned him against the night work. "I told him to stop going out to work at night, but he insisted and said he had plans," he said. They shared the same house, he saw his son every day. He was on his way home when the car hit him.

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