2:31pm Monday 15th March 2010
Labour MP Ashok Kumar has died, his office said today.
He was found this morning at his home in Middlesbrough, a spokesman said, in what was being treated as a “sudden accidental death”.
”It came as a huge shock to everyone,” the spokesman said.
Dr Kumar, who was 53, represented Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland.
A spokesman for Cleveland Police said: “Police were called to an address on Canberra Road, Marton, in Middlesbrough, at 12.30pm today, Monday 15th March.
”Officers entered the property and found the body of a man in his 50s.
”He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
”At this stage it is too early to say whether the death is being treated as suspicious and inquiries are ongoing.”
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