Noida: A 37-year-old truck driver was found dead inside the locked cabin of his truck with no visible injuries on his body, near Kasna in Greater Noida on Wednesday afternoon.Locals informed police on the emergency helpline around 3pm that a man was lying unconscious inside the cabin of a truck parked along a road in Ladpura village. A team reached the spot and found the door and windows locked from inside. They rushed the man, Pawan Sharma, to a nearby hospital but doctors declared him dead on arrival.Police believe Pawan, a resident of Enchora village in Bulandshahr, was transporting potatoes from Aligarh when he stopped his truck to get a night of sleep in Kasna.“We found no wounds or injury marks on his body and suspect he may have died due to suffocation while sleeping inside the truck cabin,” said Pankaj Sharma, station house officer of Kasna police station.He said the cause of death would be established only after the forensic examination. The body was sent for an autopsy which confirmed that there were no internal or external injuries on Pawan’s body. But police are also examining the circumstances under which the truck was parked and the events preceding his death, the SHO said.Police have informed Pawan’s family about his death.
