A woman tourist from Gujarat died of heart failure in J&K's Kulgam district today, officials said.  

As per officials, the woman tourist from Vadodara, identified as Hansaben Shah, aged 52, wife of Mahendrabhai Shah, died of a heart attack.

She was travelling in a bus at Vessu in the Qazigund area of Kulgam when the incident took place.

"She was shifted to the government medical college hospital in Anantnag town where doctors declared her dead. Inquest proceedings have been initiated under the relevant sections of law," an official said.

For a while now, Gujarat has been tackling the issues of sudden deaths with cardiac issues.

In April this year, four people in Rajkot succumbed to sudden deaths in the last 48 hours. In January, during the Uttarayan festival, three persons lost their lives, all of them were below the age of 40, due to reported cardiac issues. 

(With inputs from syndicated feed)