PORT-OF-SPAIN - Four men died after eating a meal on Sunday night at a Barrackpore house.

Winston Seelal, 55, Mahadeo Roopchand, 40, and Nazim Mohammed, 40, were dead before the Emergency Medical Services ambulance arrived. Ramdeo Jugmohan, a grandfather of two, died while undergoing treatment at the San Fernando General Hospital.

Police said Monday the men spent the evening cooking a meal and drinking home-made wine at Seelal's small wooden shack at Rampersad Trace, off Rochard Douglas Road, Barrackpore.

But several hours later neighbours saw them lying on the grass outside the house.

Police searched the house, but found no evidence of poison. Nevertheless, they took away four glasses and water from a steel barrel for forensic testing. (Trinidad Express)