Two Russian women found dead, Goa cops say no foul play

PANAJI: A day after two

Russian women

were found dead in their rented rooms in two different places in Goa's Siolim, Anjuna police said on Friday that there is no foul play suspected in both cases.

Goa police

have informed the

Russian embassy

about both the deaths, and the bodies have been preserved at Goa Medical College, Bambolim. Police said, while one woman died by

suicide

, the other's body was found lying on the bed.

PI Suraj Gawas on Thursday said that they received information from the Siolim public health centre that one Alexandra Ri Djavi, 24, was brought dead in an ambulance. Upon enquiry, it was revealed that the deceased lived in a rented room with her boyfriend at Gublawaddo-Oxel, Siolim.

Gawas said that the deceased was "mentally-disturbed" and under medication. "In the absence of her boyfriend, she died by suicide by hanging herself to a ceiling fan hook in the kitchen with a red sari," he said.

In another incident on Thursday, Gawas said they received a phone call from EMRI 108 informing them that a woman was found dead in her rented room at Oxel.

"At the spot, we found Ekaterina Titova, 34, lying on the bed inside her bedroom. The deceased lived in the rented room with another foreigner, also a Russian," he said. Gawas said that upon verification, no external injuries were found on the body.


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