Close on the heels of back-to-back two deaths, a tourist and a lawmaker of Russia, an engineer of the transcontinental country was found dead on a ship in Odisha’s Paradip port on Tuesday morning.
The deceased, according to the police, has been identified as Milyakov Sergey (51), a crewmember and the chief engineer of the MV Al Danah ship.
The body has been sent to a local hospital for postmortem. Exact cause of the death can be ascertained only after the receipt of the medical report. However, it appears to be a natural death. The Russian citizen might have died of cardiac arrest, an official of Paradip police station said.
The commercial ship was anchored at the port for carrying iron ore to Mumbai. The death of the Russian crewmember is being investigated by local police in accordance with medico-legal procedure, said an official of Paradip Port Authority.
It is pertinent to note here that a Russian tourist Pavel Antov, a business tycoon and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Rayagada town on 24 December, two days after his fellow traveller Vladimir Bidenov was found dead there.
Vladimir and Pavel were part of a four-member group of Russian tourists who along with their guide Jitendra Singh had checked into the hotel in Rayagada town.
Later, the crime branch- criminal investigation department has taken up the investigation of the case and is yet to detect any foul play in the twin deaths of the foreign nationals.
The two deceased Russians were later cremated with the CB-CID investigation currently underway into their deaths.