Five Bihar men found dead in Chhattigarh hotel

Raipur -- Five young men from Bihar were found dead in mysterious circumstances in a Chhattisgarh hotel, police said Monday.

The bodies of the five, in their 20s, who worked in a sweetshop in Raigarh, 220 km from here, were found Sunday.

"They died in extremely mysterious conditions as their bodies bore no injury marks," Lal Umed Singh, additional superintendent of police, Raigarh district, told IANS.

"Preliminary investigations indicate a case of food poisoning as the deceased had consumed sweets that were 20 days old before going to bed Saturday night," he said.