Missing Surgeon Found Dead Near Shopping Mall, Police Say She Killed Herself Due To Stress

A doctor was found dead near a retail mall in India’s Kolhapur on Sunday morning, July 10. Police believe the woman killed herself after they found a suicide note and a medication syringe next to her lifeless body.

The victim has been identified as, 30-year-old Apurva Pravinchandra Hendre, a surgeon at a private hospital in the city.

Police said the investigation began after the victim’s father, a gynecologist, filed his daughter’s missing report.

The police had been searching for the surgeon when they were alerted about an unresponsive woman near a shopping mall in Tarbai park.

The responding officers rushed the victim to a local hospital where doctors pronounced her dead, reports said.

The victim was identified with the help of her parents and the body was sent to a medical examiner's office for an autopsy. The official cause of death is unclear at this time.

Investigators recovered a suicide note and a medical syringe from the scene, which indicated a case of suicide, a police official said.

According to a preliminary investigation, the surgeon was dealing with extreme stress in both her work and personal life.

“The suicide note states that she had work stress as well as personal issues, which prompted her to take the extreme step. We are waiting for the full post-mortem report to find out if the death had been caused due to overdose of those medications,” a police official told the Times of India.

This is an ongoing investigation and no further details were revealed at the time of this writing.

“We are going to record the statements of her parents after they come out of the shock of their daughter’s death,” the police official said.

In another incident, a young Indian businessman allegedly killed himself after incurring a loss playing the online game PUBG.

Debendra Parida was found hanging dead from a ceiling fan at his home in the Bhuasini village in the Indian state of Odisha on Monday, July 4.

Parida, a businessman man had reportedly received around Rs 3 lakh ($3783 approx.) by selling food grains. But the lure of money drove him to play the online game and eventually lose more than Rs 2 lakh ($2522 approx.), according to local media reports.

This led to a heated argument between him and his father who rebuked him for playing the game.

Unable to bear the loss and deprived of playing the game anymore, Parida allegedly hung himself on Sunday night, reports said.