A Nigerian, 28-year-old died while undergoing treatment at Inamdar
Hospital, in India only a few minutes after a group of seven persons
dropped him off at the hospital, then fled the scene.
According to
PuneMirror, an Indian news portal, the man identified as Mbamara
Chideara Festus, normally stays in Nigeria, but at the moment lives in
Mumbai.
A post-mortem conducted at Sassoon General Hospital, said
Festus died of alcohol overdose after a party at Hotel Shalimar,
Kondhwa.
After he fell unconscious, seven of his friends — five
men and two women — dropped him off at the hospital in a Swift and left
immediately. He was declared dead minutes later.
A guard at the
hospital noted down the registration number of the car and the Wanowrie
police managed to track it down in Kondhwa. Senior police inspector B D
Mohite who is in charge of Wanowrie police station said, “As per primary
information, Festus is from Mumbai, and originally from Nigeria.
His
friends are students in Mumbai, mostly from Nigeria as well. They had
all come to Pune on Friday to attend a party at Hotel Shalimar in
Kondhwa. It looks like he may drunk beyond his limits and then faced its
ill-effects.”
Mohite added, “We established contact with his
friends in Mumbai. They came Pune in two separate cars at the invitation
of one of their friends here. While partying, Festus suddenly
collapsed.
One of his friends, identified as Chukwuma took him to
the hospital, along with six others. While treating him, doctors
declared him dead. On hearing this, his friends panicked, thinking they
might get into trouble with the police, especially since they did not
have their passports with them. They left the hospital at once and got
in touch with us only after they got back to Mumbai.”
Mohite
further said that, as per the post-mortem report, Festus had no external
or internal injuries. The report states that the details of the cause
of death have been kept confidential. “However it is part of the
investigation as to whether any other narcotic substances were used,”
Mohite said.
Sunil Date, administrative officer, Inamdar
Multispeciality Hospital said, “Around 3:15 am, around 7 to 8 people
came in two cars. They took the patient to the Casualties ward, then
left in a hurry. He was in a very bad state. When doctors took him and
checked his ECG, they found he was already dead.”
Date added, “Our
security guards chased the car and noted the registration number, which
we then handed over to the police. Since the death occurred before we
could treat him, we do not know the exact cause. We have already given
the police CDs of our CCV footage to help them in their investigation.”
culled from PM News
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