A Meghalaya Civil Defence and Home Guards personnel, Ribok Dkhar Sawian (34), was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Guwahati on Thursday. While the circumstances or the reasons behind his death remains unconfirmed, Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Friday said Sawian might have died of cardiac arrest. “According to the information we received, he came out of the place of work and more or less he got a heart attack although it has not been confirmed,” Tynsong said.
Sawian, who hailed from Mawryngkneng in East Khasi Hills, was attending a training with 21 others on basic disaster management at the first NDRF battalion, Changsari camp, Guwahati. The deceased was posted at the Disaster Training Centre of Home Guards, East Khasi Hills and was about to complete five years of service. Fifteen personnel from the Civil Defence and Home Guards, Assam, are also part of the training programme.
Officials on Friday said the training started on April 7 and will conclude on June 6. It was learned that Sawian asked for a bucket from his colleague after dinner on April 9 and left the barracks to take a bath at the bathing point. His colleagues went out to search for him after he failed to return to the barracks. They found only his clothes at the bathing point.