Bollywood star Sridevi died in bath after ‘loss of consciousness’
SRIDEVI, the Bollywood actress, died of accidental drowning in her hotel bath in Dubai, her post mortem examination report said yesterday.
The Dubai government’s media office said that the examination of the 54-year-old, who used only her first name, revealed that she had died due to “drowning in her hotel apartment’s bathtub following loss of consciousness”.
The case has been handed over to the Dubai public prosecutor for further investigation, to try to determine the exact circumstances leading to her death on Saturday.
Earlier, it was reported that Sridevi had died of a cardiac arrest in her hotel in Dubai, where she was attending her nephew’s wedding.
She was found unconscious in her bathtub at Dubai’s Emirates Towers hotel and rushed to hospital where she was declared dead on arrival. Dubai’s Gulf News, however, alleged that the star, who acted in 300 films, was under the “influence of alcohol” and had fallen into the bathtub and drowned.
But the Dubai authorities did not confirm this, nor did they tweet the results of a possible toxicology test they might have conducted.
According to news reports from Dubai, the latest revelations in Sridevi’s post mortem examination report could result in a delay in repatriating her body to Mumbai for cremation according to Hindu rites.