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MAPUSA
On a day when two Indian tourists collapsed at the Sunburn Klassique EDM event at Vagator and later died on Friday, controversy continued to dog the EDM when over 100 mobile phones were reportedly stolen from visitors at the venue.
Incidentally, over 100 phones had also been reported stolen in a similar incident during the last Sunburn EDM in Goa.
According to reports, the event had ended at about 10 pm on Friday when a number of visitors realised that their phones were missing and later filed a complaint at the Anjuna police station.
On Saturday too some more phones were stolen, according to police sources.
A majority of complainants are Indian tourists and many of the phones are reported to be premium and high-end.
The theft took place even though the organisers of the Sunburn EDM had undertaken security measures at the venue, while police teams were also stationed at the event.
Incidents of mobile phones being snatched have been reported along the Anjuna coast since October.
A five-member gang from West Bengal had been arrested earlier this month, but such incidents have continued to take place.
Anjuna police were reluctant to divulge further details into the theft of mobile phones at the Sunburn EDM, but sources had said the number is believed to be less than the number of phones stolen during the last Sunburn EDM in Goa.
Meanwhile, the Anjuna police have erected banners at various places in a bid to caution people and to create public awareness on phone-snatching incidents in the area.
However, these efforts seem to have made little difference in preventing phones from being snatched from people.Autopsy reserved in two deaths
MAPUSA: An autopsy was on Saturday conducted on the bodies of two Indian tourists who died under suspicious circumstances shortly after collapsing at the venue of the Sunburn Klassique EDM on Friday.
The autopsy report has, however, been reserved in the exact cause of death and a medical team has decided to send the viscera samples of the bodies of Malyala Saiprasad (31) and Venkat Ravi Satyanarayan (26), both from Andhra Pradesh, to a forensic lab for further analysis.
Family members of both deceased had arrived in the State
on Saturday morning and the autopsies were later performed in the GMC hospital.
“The bodies have been handed over to the families after the autopsy. The reports have been reserved and viscera samples will be sent to the forensic lab in Verna for further analysis,” said North Goa SP Utkrisht Prasoon.
While police believe the two tourists died due to cardiac arrest, there are strong suspicions that the two deaths were linked to suspected drugs overdose.
