A 67-year-old man from Tatakamotonga who was found dead at a tax allotment on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 25 is reported to have suffered a heart attack and died two days earlier.

According to the Police the man was staying in a shack on the tax allotment located between the villages of Lavengatonga and Fatumu in the Eastern District of Tongatapu.

His body was discovered outside the shack and reported to the police at Mu’a.  

An inquest held this week determined the cause of death as a natural cause, a heart attack. It was believed that the man died on Sunday, February 23.