U.S Professor Dies on Railway Platform

A NRI working as a professor in United States (U.S) swooned and died on the railway station platform at Coimbatore on Friday night, when he was waiting to board a Chennai-bound train.

According to the Railway Police, 58 year old Srinivasa Suresh who was a professor teaching at a university in the U.S along with his wife had come to Chennai on a personal vist and had gone to a relative's house in Salem.

After leaving his wife at Salem, Prof. Suresh came to Coimbatore for some personal work and was scheduled to board the Nilgiris Express to Chennai, asking his wife to board it from Salem.

As he was about to board the train, leaving at 9 p.m., he suddenly swooned at the platform and was rushed to the government medical college hospital, where he was declared brought dead, police added.

The body has been kept at the hospital and would be handed over to his wife after post-mortem, they said.

- Asian Tribune -