Although Ameena Manoo knew it is a bad omen to dream about her dead relative, it never crossed her mind that her two sons would be involved in a serious accident and one would die.
Ashmeed Manoo, 29, died on arrival at the San Fernando General Hospital after he, his brother Ameer, 26 and friend Roshan Mooklal, 19, were injured in an early morning accident in Penal yesterday.
Ameer was treated and discharged, but Mooklal is warded in the Intensive Care Unit and and is expected to undergo surgery.
According to a police report, around 2 am the three friends, who live at Katwaroo Trace, Penal, were heading home after liming at J’s Restaurant and Bar at Batchyia Village when the incident happened. Ameer, who was driving, reportedly lost control of the car near Ramjattan Trace along the SS Erin Road and it began to spin before colliding into a culvert. Ashmeed was the front seat passenger.
Speaking at her home yesterday, Manoo, a mother of four, said Ashmeed, who does tiling, did not go to work and spent the day with her. She said he was in a playful and talkative mood. Later around 5 pm, she said they went by their cousin, which is a customary thing, to play cards and hang out.
Manoo said she was shocked to learn that they were coming home from the bar.
“They are not drinkers. There was no alcohol or drugs in their system,” she added.
Manoo said she recently dreamt her children’s deceased grandmother.
“I telling my sister-in-law something wrong, something not right. Every time I dream her something does happen.”
Describing Ashmeed as a peaceful person, she said their relatives would say he was her favourite son because they shared a close relationship.
She said Ashmeed, who is estranged from his wife of five years, was planning to build his own house. The mother, who was waiting for Ameer to return home from the hospital yesterday, said they had not yet told him his brother had died.
Penal police are investigating.