Software engineer dies while running on treadmill

Kolkata May 20 (IANS) A software engineer died after he fell down while running on treadmill as part of an exercise regime on Saturday police said.

Police have started an investigation after registering a case of unnatural death an officer at the Newtown police station said.

According to eyewitnesses the 24-year-old techie Amar M apparently lost his balance while running on the treadmill at his office gym in the satellite township New Town and fell.

Amar a resident of Bengaluru lost consciousness and was rushed to a private hospital which pronounced him dead.

He was running on the treadmill. Hr felt uneasy and fell. As his condition worsened he was sent in an ambulance to hospital said a security officer at the gym.

The patient was brought dead. We conducted an ECG which recorded a flat line. The cause and the nature of injury can be ascertained only after post mortem said Colombia Hospital General Manager Arindam Bandopadhyay.

--IANS
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