Tragedy has struck the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty of Clax­ton Bay, af­ter a farmer was found dead be­neath his trac­tor on Wednes­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the death of 52-year-old Vi­jay Har­riper­sad, whose body was dis­cov­ered by his son along a track in their gar­den at Alarack Trace, For­res Park. Po­lice be­lieve he was crushed by the trac­tor.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to the scene at around 4.30 pm and found Har­riper­sad un­re­spon­sive in his gar­den, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 180 feet from the road­way. A Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer pro­nounced him dead and or­dered that his body be tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre for a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion.