CHENNAI: A 22-year-old college student died after he swooned on the dance floor of a restobar in Nungambakkam on Saturday night.
The deceased was identified as Muhammed Suhail, a native of Karaikudi, who was pursuing an MBA degree at a private college in Ramapuram and staying in a hostel in the city.
On Saturday, Suhail along with his friends had visited a restobar 'House of Billa' (HOB) located in The Kings Park Grand Hotel in Nungambakkam.
While dancing, Suhail swooned all of a sudden after which his friends rushed him to a hospital nearby where he was declared as brought dead.
Teynampet Police secured his body and moved it to the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital for a post-mortem exam.
The cops said that the doctors suspected the youth to have suffered a cardiac arrest.
Senior police officers visited the bar to conduct enquiries. They asked the management to share CCTV footage from the premises.
"We have asked for viscera analysis and are awaiting the autopsy results to identify the cause of his death," a police official added.
Meanwhile, Suhail's friends told the police that the deceased did not even consume liquor.
In May 2022, S Praveen (23) of Madipakkam, a software engineer, collapsed at a rave party organized on the rooftop of a mall in Anna Nagar and later died in a hospital.