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Mumbai: On a seemingly ordinary Tuesday, the tranquility of Mumbai’s Andheri area was shattered when the police were alerted to a grim discovery. The body of a 62-year-old US national was found in a room at a five-star hotel in the Andheri area of Mumbai, Maharashtra, on Tuesday morning, police said.
US citizen was on business trip
Reportedly, the deceased man, recognised as Mark Williams, director of an IT solutions firm, had landed in Mumbai on March 9 for business purposes as his company has an office here and was planning to return on March 14. “The US citizen was in Mumbai for a meeting and was staying at the hotel since March 9,” officials said.
When he did not open the door despite multiple ring bells and calls on Tuesday morning, hotel staff opened the door with a duplicate key and found him lying unconscious on the bed, the official said. He was swiftly rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.
The police received the information around 10.00 am on Tuesday. Upon receiving the information, the police promptly arrived at the scene, took custody of the body, and transported it to the nearby government hospital for a post-mortem examination.
No foul play
The police said that there was no suspicion of foul play in the incident. A prima facie indicated that the foreign national died of ‘natural causes.’
Police are awaiting the postmortem report to ascertain the cause of death while an Accidental Death Report (ADR) has been registered and an investigation into the matter is ongoing.
