WOMEN'S safety in India came under question again after a 46-year-old British woman was found dead on a beach in Goa, one of the South Asian country's top tourist destinations, on Wednesday (3) morning.
She was identified as Emma Louise Leaning.
Leaning's decomposed body was found lying on Agonda beach in Canacona village in southern Goa. Local police said the body bore no external injuries. They registered a case over the death and the body was sent for post-mortem at a district hospital in Margao town in South Goa.
International tourists throng Goa in large numbers during Christmas and the New Year.
The body was located by a group of local people who were walking along Agonda beach, local media reports said.
They informed the police and the body was sent for post-mortem.
Local people suspected the woman fell while trying to climb a wall and broke her collarbone. However, mystery surrounding her death fuelled suspicion over whether it involved foul play.
The police, however, ruled out any such possibility. "Her friends do not suspect any foul play," a senior police official said.
Leaning had been living in a rented house in Agonda, it is understood.
















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