New Delhi: A third Russian has died in Odisha, days after the deaths of two compatriots at a Rayagada hotel.

Times of India has reported that Sergy Milyakov, a 51-year-old, passed away on a cargo ship at the Paradip port today, January 3.

Police suspect heart attack.

The superintendent of police of Jagatsinghpur – the district within which Paradip lies – Akhilesvhar Singh, told the newspaper that Milyakov was one of the crew members of the ship.

Police have also decided to preserve Milyakov's visceral samples and video record the autopsy. The Odisha police were criticised days ago for not doing either after the death of 65-year-old Pavel Antov, a former member of a regional legislative assembly in Russia.

The Wire had reported on how Antov's death was largely seen by global media as one in a series of incidents involving "Russian tycoons and high-profile oil and gas executives." Antov apparently jumped from the terrace of the hotel he was living in, just two days after the death of his friend, Russian national Vladimir Bydanov, at the same hotel. Police said the latter had been drinking heavily and died due to a heart attack.

The post-mortem report of the Russian MP indicated that he died of internal injury after a fall, while that of Bidenov pointed to a heart attack as the cause of death.

Antov and Bydanov were part of a group of four Russians who had visited Rayagada with an Indian guide.

Both Bydanov and Antov were cremated just a day after their deaths, though as Christians they should have been buried.

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