log on to thegoan.net @thegoanonline MONDAY DECEMBER 30, 2024 Facebook.com/thegoan The Goan E-Paper (Playstore/IOS) 12 pages PRICE ` 10 PANAJI MARGAO GOA VOLUME X, NO.192 Instagram.com/thegoanonline RNI: GOAENG/2015/65729 Spectre of death haunts Sunburn again; Delhi youth collapses, dies AUTOPSY CONDUCTED AT GMC, CAUSE OF DEATH AWAITED; POLICE ASSURE LEGAL ACTION IF FOUL PLAY FOUND; OPPN DEMANDS HIGH-LEVEL PROBE THE GOAN I NETWORK PANAJI The spectre of revellers collapsing and later dying in mysterious circumstances has come to haunt the organisers of the Sunburn Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festival again. On Saturday, which was day one of this year’s edition of the controversial EDM festival, a Delhi youth Karan Kashyap (26) died while being treated at Vision Hospital, Mapusa hours after he collapsed at the Dhargal venue while attending the festival around 9.30 pm. The 26-year-old fell unconscious during the event and was rushed to the private hospital in Mapusa in an ambulance where he died. His body Vision hospital medical report reveals severe ‘renal injury’ PANAJI: The medical and death report of Karan Kashyap at the Vision Hospital has recorded severe “renal injury” as one of the causes that led to the youth’s death. However, the report of the post-mortem autopsy examination conducted by coroners at the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Bambolim has refrained from pin-pointing the reasons for the toxins leading to the injury to his kidneys. “As is the standard procedure, the viscera has been preserved for further analysis and investigation to a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). Also tissues have been preserved for histopathology tests and a final opinion will be given after the results are available,” a GMC&H source said. was then sent to the Goa Medical College and Hospital at Bambolim, where an autopsy examination was conducted on Sunday, according to North Goa Superintendent of Police Akshat Kaushal, IPS. Kaushal said the cause of death will be known only after the detailed autopsy report is Kashyap was IIT-Kanpur topper PANAJI: Heartbroken with his tragic death, Kashyap’s father and sister arrived in Goa on Sunday and have reportedly revealed to the police that he was an IIT-Kanpur topper. A police source said, Kashyap had also secured a spot at the globally acclaimed University of California, Berkeley and was due to travel to pursue further studies there. available and necessary legal action will be taken if any foul play is found. At least three past editions of the controversial EDM festi- val had been marred with similar instances of revellers collapsing at the venues or just outside and then dying. In 2019, when the event was held at Vagator, three youth had died in similar mysterious circumstances. On day one, two friends from Andhra Pradesh, Sai Prasad Malayala and Venkat Satyanarayana, collapsed while in the queue to enter the venue and were declared dead on arrival at the hospital they were taken to. The next day a Bengaluru youth Sandeep Kotta (24) who fell unconscious at the venue died while undergoing treatment at the hospital. There were similar mysterious deaths reported in two earlier editions of Sunburn as >Continued on P7 179 dead, 2 rescued after plane crashes on South Korea runway Investigators are looking into possible bird strike; flight data, cockpit voice recorders retrieved PTI SEOUL A passenger plane skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport on Sunday, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames after its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people on board died in one of the country's worst aviation disasters. The Jeju Air plane crashed while landing in the town of Muan, about 290 kilometres south of Seoul. The Transport Ministry said the plane was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 jet that had arrived from Bangkok and that the crash happened at 9:03 am. A total of 179 people 85 women, 84 men and 10 others whose genders weren't immediately identifiable died in the fire, the South Korean fire agency said. Emergency workers pulled two people, both crew members, to Rescue workers take part in a salvage operation at the site where an aircraft crashed after it went off the runway at Muan International Airport, in Muan, South Korea, on Sunday. safety. Health officials said they are conscious and not in life-threatening condition. Among the 177 bodies so far found, officials have so far identified 88 of them, the fire agency said. The passengers were predominantly South Korean, as well as two Thai nationals. Thailand's Foreign Ministry said its embassy in Seoul received confirmation from South Korean authorities that the two Thai passengers were among the fatalities. The fire agency deployed 32 fire trucks and several helicopters to contain the blaze. About 1,570 firefighters, police officers, soldiers and other officials were also sent to the site, according to the >Continued on P7