A 65-year-old Essequibo businesswoman was found dead on Sunday night on her bed with a towel around her neck after she went to attend to a customer at her Adventure grocery store.

Dead is Bannomati Singh called `Doreen'. According to a police press release yesterday, Singh was in the company of her husband, Kishore Singh, 70, at their Guest House when she left to attend to a customer at their grocery store nearby.

When her husband subsequently went across to shut the grocery store he discovered the place ransacked and his wife's body lying on a bed in the living room area with the towel around her neck. She was pronounced dead on arrival at the Suddie Hospital.

Police said in the release it was still unclear what articles could have been stolen.

A woman identifying herself as Singh's sister-in-law told this newspaperby phone last night that the family has still not gotten around to ascertaining if anything was stolen. She said up to last night she had not heard if the police had managed to arrest anyone in connection with the death.