Students interrogated in dismembered Russian case

20 May,2009 07:34 AM IST |   |  Agencies

Two boys had met 19-year-old Elena Sukhanova on their Goa trip and had spoken to her a couple of days before her dismembered body was found on railway track at Thivim station


Two boys had met 19-year-old Elena Sukhanova on their Goa trip and had spoken to her a couple of days before her dismembered body was found on railway track at Thivim station

Goa police have interrogated city-based students who had met the 19-year-old Russian girl Elena Sukhanova on

Jab they met: The boys had met Elena during the last week of April at the Baga beach. representation pic

their Goa trip a few days before her death. "During the investigations we came to know that Elena had met two youths who were in Goa holiday," said, Tony Fernandes, superintendent of police.

Both the students were in Goa during the last week of April and had met the girl atu00a0u00a0 Baga beach. Elena's dismembered body was found on railway track at Thivim station on May 8. Police are now trying to piece together all the leads to find out whether she was killed or fell accidentally from the train and died.

Fernandes added Elenas call records indicate that she had spoken to these youths a couple of days before her death.

"We are trying to find out how she met them and whether she had left for Mumbai or Pune to meet them," he said. The students travelled to Goa in their private car and spent a day with the girl going around the state's famous beaches like Morjim, the police said.
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They added they have not given clean chit to anyone who is being interrogated. The policeu00a0 are still probing the death cause.
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