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29 March 2024

Neighbour's pesticide kills man in adjacent flat

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An Indian manager succumbed to suspected insecticide poisoning in Bur Dubai.

According to a report in 'Gulf News', 33-year-old Raghavendra Shivaji died of inhaling toxic fumes from pesticides used in a neighbouring apartment, which wafted through the central air-conditioning system.

The victim from Andhra Pradesh worked as a sales manager at an IT company and shared the flat with three others.

Recalling the incident of the fateful day, the deceased's roommates said in the morning of August 5, Shivaji complained of breathlessness and was rushed to Rashid Hospital.

He was discharged and advised to open the windows of the flat, said roommate Binu Muralidharan, a bank employee.

On their return they found CR, another roommate, vomiting. An ambulance was called, but the medics didn't consider it an emergency and did not take him to hospital, following which CR's friends drove him to hospital.

Meanwhile, by noon Muralidharan fell sick and began throwing up, too.

By evening 7pm, when another roommate, Chinappa, returned home, he found his mates in bad condition.

He called an ambulance and transported all three to hospital. But Shivaji did not make it.

Muralidharan said according to the police neighbours had used pesticide tablets and this could be the reason behind the incident.

One of Shivaji's colleagues, quoting police sources said, the neighbours had used "25 tablets instead of using three".

Two people of the neighbouring apartment have been taken into custody.