Dead man tests positive
Source: Chronicle News Service / KAIMUANTHANG MANGTE
Churachandpur, May 15 2021:
A man found dead at a waiting shed in Sim Veng under Singhat (Singngat) police station in Churachandpur district on Saturday morning was found to be positive for Covid-19 .
According to a source, Singhat PS received a telephone call around 5.30 am informing that an unknown male body was laying at the Sim Veng waiting shed.
As a police team went there to retrieve the body and conduct spot investigation one Khagembam Ojit Singh (23) s/o Kh Hemanta of Langthabal Awang Leikai in Imphal West district identified the deceased as Aheibam Bashi (28) s/o (L) Aheibam Kumar of Heirangoithong under Naoriya Pakhanglakpa assembly constituency.
Ojit said he works as a sub-contract labourer of BIPL engaged in the construction of Singhat Community Health Centre and that Bashi was his co-worker.
Later RAT test was done on Bashi's lifeless body and it turned out to be Covid-19 positive.
The incident has been intimated to CMO, Churachandpur for necessary measures while an unnatural death case has been registered in Singhat police station for further investigation, the source added.