A Navy sailor succumbed to his injuries after he was set on fire by his kidnappers in the jungles of the Palghar district in Maharashtra, the police said on Saturday (February 6). It was earlier reported that the 26-year-old man was abducted in Chennai on January 30.
The man who is identified as Suraj Kumar Dubey died on Friday (February 5) when he was getting shifted to a hospital in Mumbai, said the police.
Zee News quoted a Navy spokesperson as saying that Dubey was on leave when he was kidnapped. He was later found with 90 per cent burn injuries in Palghar on Friday and shifted to the Navy hospital, INHS Asvini. He was declared dead on arrival.
Palghar district police spokesperson Sachin Navadkar told media that Dubey was posted at the INS Agrani near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and he was from Ranchi. According to the police, three men kidnapped Dubey at gunpoint on January 30 around 9 pm outside the Chennai airport when he was returning from a vacation. The…