Ishmeet died due to drowning: viscera report

Patiala : The death of singing sensation Ishmeet Singh in a resort in Maldives on July 29 was simply a case of drowning, according to the viscera examination here. Dr Manjeet Singh Bal, Head of the Department of Pathology of the Government Medical College (GMC) said that he and three other doctors examined the viscera, brain and one lung and found that the cause of death was due to drowning. The team of four doctors -Bal, Anil Suri, Vijay Kumar and Mohinder Singh- examined the viscera received here after the post-mortem examination conducted at Civil Hospital in Ludhiana recently. The singer\'s death was \"simply a case of drowning\", Dr Bal said. The post-mortem conducted at Ludhiana on Ishmeet\'s body showed that the 19-year-old singer of Ludhiana died due to \"asphyxia\". Ishmeet, the winner of the reality show \'Voice of India 2007\', had gone to the Maldives for a stage show, but he died due to drowning in a swimming pool of the resort where the team was staying.

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