BRITISH COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN A HOTEL ROOM

 

Agra October 21 (IANS)

 

Dead bodies of a British couple were found in a hotel room, near Taj Mahal early today.

 

Police said preliminary inquiries suggest "its case of overdose of drugs."

 

SSP Shalabh Mathur told media persons "it appears the two were dead Monday night itself, as the food they had ordered had not been eaten." The British High Commission had been informed in the morning.

Police said the boy 28 years has been identified as James Oliver and the 24 year old girl as Alexendra   Nichola Gaskel, from their passports. The two had come to India on July 11. They came to Agra on October 18 and stayed at Residency hotel. They shifted to another hotel Maya  close to the Taj Mahal on October 20.

Tuesday morning when there was no response from their room, the hotel staff informed the police. The bodies were sent for post mortem at SN Medical College.

SSP said only after the report of the post mortem the cause of their death would be established. Police found stress relieving and sleeping pills from the room.