**Bhubaneswar: ** Kishore Mallick, a 40-yr-old camera person working with a regional news channel was found dead in his house on the wee hours of Wednesday.
Preliminary investigation suggests that it may be due to snake bite.
Notably, he was sleeping in his room at night after dinner when this incident might have happened. His wife had gone to her parents place along with her 3-yr-old son two days back.
Kishore’s mother and brother were with him at the house.They discovered him dead on his bed this morning.
As he had cordial relations with all his acquaintances, no foul play is suspected in his death. But the final reports of the post-mortem are awaited.
Police has sent the body for postmortem.
Notably, at least 320 people died due to snake bite in the state in the 2015-16 which makes the state government concerned as the toll mounts year after year.