Nepali labourer found dead in Ladakh

A Nepali labourer was found dead under suspicious circumstances in frontier region of Ladakh, police said today.

Tek Bahadur, a resident of Dong Reppi area of Nepal, was found dead in his room at Somoor-Nobra in "suspicious manner" yesterday, a police spokesman said.

The postmortem of the deceased was carried out at Sub District Hospital in Nobra, he said, adding a case has been registered and investigations started to ascertain the cause of his death.