Russian Man Found Dead Onboard A Ship In Odisha, Third 'Mysterious' Death In Two Weeks
A Russian man was found dead in Odisha on Tuesday, making this the third such incident in the state in a fortnight.
The Russian national, identified as Milyakov Sergey, was found dead in a ship anchored at Paradip Port in the Jagatsinghpur district.
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Police suspect ‘heart attack’
The 51-year-old man was the vessel’s chief engineer, MB Aldnah, which was on its way to Mumbai from Chittagong Port in Bangladesh via Paradip.
The police suspected that Milyakov died due to a heart attack. However, the exact cause of the death will be ascertained after a proper investigation, a police official said.
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This comes at a time when the death of two Russian nationals, both tourists who died under mysterious circumstances, is still being investigated.
Third Russia to die in Odisha
On December 24, Russian national Pavel Antov died after allegedly falling from a hotel’s third floor. Another Russian national Vladimir Bidenov had earlier died “due to heart attack”.
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Antov was a Russian lawmaker and philanthropist. The multi-millionaire was on vacation in the Rayagada region of Odisha, where he was celebrating his 65th birthday. According to the police, he was allegedly found dead, having fallen out of a third-floor hotel window.
The post-mortem report of the Russian MP indicated that he died of internal injury after a fall.
Bidenov, also a part of a group of Russian tourists, was found dead at the same hotel on December 22. He was found unconscious in his room on the hotel’s first floor with a few empty wine bottles around him.
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No foul play: Police
On Monday, Odisha DGP S K Bansal said the probe into the two deaths is being conducted with an “open mind” and “no evidence of any foul play” has been found.
“Till now, we have not found anything suspicious into the incident… The investigation is being conducted with an open mind,” he said.
The two deceased’s last rites were completed with their family members’ consent and the Russian Embassy.
Missing Ukraine war critic found
Amid this, another Russian national, Andrew Glagolev, a self-proclaimed anti-Ukraine war activist, had “disappeared” from Bhubaneswar on Friday.
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But he was in a market area near Bhubaneswar railway station on Saturday.
His visa has expired and he had applied to the UN for asylum in India, Bhubaneswar GRP in-charge Jaydev Biswajit said.
NHRC seeks report on Russian deaths
On Monday, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sought a report from the Odisha Police on the “mysterious” death of Antov.
While hearing a petition filed by human rights activist Rabindra Mishra, the Commission has asked the Superintendent of Police Rayagada to submit an action taken report within four weeks.
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