69-yr-old tourist from Mumbai dies in hotel room in Gulmarg

A 69-year-old woman tourist from Mumbai died in her hotel room in the famous ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir, police said today.

Preeti, who was on a holiday trip to the valley with her husband Madan Lal Mayen, had died of a "natural cause" inside her hotel room at Grand Mumtaz in Gulmarg, 55 kms from here, a police spokesman said.

He said Preeti, a resident of Mumbai, breathed her last during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday and after legal formalities her body was handed over to her husband for last rites.