Dinu Alex, who hailed from the southern Indian state of Kerala was missing from his house in Kottayam, the Central district in the state of Kerala, just hours after his favourite football team, Argentina, lost to Croatia in the FIFA World Cup.
Reports say that Dinu penned a suicide note and left his residence after the match.
Police conducted a search for two days to find Dinu, whose body was found by locals in the Meenachil River nearly 20 kilometres down the river from his house on Sunday morning.
According to police the ardent fan of Lionel Messi watched the football match late at night, but his mother could not find him when she was awake at 5am.
Dinu Alex Photo Courtesy: Malayala Manorama Source: Manorama
However, she found a note which read: “I have nothing left in this world to view further. I am going into the depths of death. No one else is responsible for my death” reports The Hindu daily.
He had been working at a private company as an accountant and his colleague Mr E.K. Sumesh told The Hindu, “last Friday we went around the town to buy a Messi jersey for Dinu. We got drenched in the rain as he hopped from one shop to another in search of the perfect jersey.
"Some had the number, but not the name (of Messi) and some others had the name but no number. At last when he got the one he searched for, he wore it at the shop itself and took a selfie. Messi was his God.”
On Sunday morning, relatives identified Dinu’s body.
Police team have completed formalities and moved the body for post-mortem to Kottayam Medical College.
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