20-year-old Indian student found dead on Chinese varsity campus
BEIJING: A 20-year-old Indian student was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his university room in the city of Tianjin, around 100km south of Beijing, last week.
The body of Aman Nagsen was found by the staff of Tianjin Foreign Studies University (TFSU) on Thursday, said a family member. Aman was enrolled for the International Business Studies course and was from Gaya in Bihar. “We were informed about the death of my nephew by the university at 1am in the intervening night of July 29th and 30th. After that we have not received any official communication,” Nagsen’s uncle Pankaj Paswan said from Gaya.
Last week, worried family members got in touch with Nagsen’s local guardian in Beijing who in turn got in touch with TFSU authorities, persuading them to look him up and that was when Nagsen’s body was found. Nagsen’s family last spoke to him on July 23 after which he did not respond to calls or messages and did not accept a money transfer via a mobile app.
The cause of Nagsen’s death wasn’t immediately clear though the fact that he didn’t communicate with his family for six days raises questions about the time of his demise and the circumstances leading to it. The cause of death is under investigation. On July 30, Bihar’s BJP chief, Sanjay Jaiswal, tweeted about the death of the student and asked for embassy’s intervention. Nagsen was in good health and had no history of any major illness, Paswan said.
An autopsy is likely to be conducted before the body is brought back to India.