Panaji: British national found dead in Goa gym


Panaji, Mar 26 (TOI): A 58-year-old British national was found dead after he collapsed while exercising at a gym on Friday in Goa's Calangute village, police said on Saturday.

Paul Gerrad Atkinson, a British national, collapsed while exercising in gym Friday evening. We are waiting for autopsy report to know the exact cause of death," a senior police official said.

An ambulance with doctors was called, but by the time it arrived, Atkinson was dead, the official said.

The deceased foreigner was staying at a guest-house in Maddowado Calangute area and had joined the gym in February.

Police has sent the body to Goa Medical College and Hospital for post mortem examination.

The British High Commission has also been informed to contact the relatives of the deceased.

  

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