Russian girl's death an accident: Mapusa police

NT NETWORK
Posted on 2009-05-11
MAPUSA - The Mapusa police have claimed that the Russian girl whose dismembered body was found on the rail track at Revora three days back is a case of an accident.
A level team led by SP (north) Mr Tony Fernandes, SP ( Crime) Mr Bosco George, Mapusa DySp Mr Sammy Tavares, PI Mr Manjunath Dessai, PSI’s Mr Dhawaskar, Mr Brendan and other police officers who visited the scene of the accident and who investigated the matter have come to the conclusion that the deceased in all probability must have died by falling out from a moving train.
According to the police, the deceased identified as Helena Sukonova, a Russian aged around 20 years had arrived on a package tour to India through the Travel Corporation of India on April 19. She had thereafter lodged at a hotel at Baga and was supposed to fly back to Russia on May 3. However it is learnt that from May 2, the victim went missing from the hotel and while her batch mates had already left on the said day, the hotel management on finding her missing later lodged a missing complaint on May 5.
Subsequently, on May 6, a watchmen of the same hotel at Baga spotted her and brought her to the hotel where she informed the hotel staff that she disappeared, as she did not want to return back to her country. She then changed her hotel and booked another hotel till May 8, here again the previous night she came across some Russians and went partying with them the whole night.
Police claim that till around 2.30 a.m on May 8, she was probably at the Baga beach, enjoying. At around 3 a.m, it is learnt that she boarded a tourist taxi and asked the taxi driver to drop her at the Tivim railway station. After inquiring with the taxi driver, the police learnt that she had stopped the taxi in between to purchase three beer bottles and while she drank 1 bottle she had kept the other 2 bottles with her.
She got down from the taxi at the railway station. This has led the police to believe that in an intoxicated state she must have either entered the Mangala Express that leaves from Tivim at 5 a.m or the Netravali Express that leaves at 7 a.m. She must have accidentally fallen from the train, opine police.
The police are still puzzled as to why the deceased did not want to go back home on completion of her package tour. Further investigations are in progress.