Guwahati, April 14 -- A panda (tourist guide / priest) of Kamakhya Temple was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a sacred pond on Sunday morning.

The body of the panda, identified as 31-year-old Himangshu Sarma, was found floating atop the sacred Saubhagya Kunda by people in the morning.

Saubhagya Kunda is a popular water body located within the campus of the Kamakhya Temple where devotees go to wash their feet before going to worship the Mother Goddess Kamkhya.

Although rescuers moved him from the water body as soon his floating body was spotted and efforts were made to rescue him, it was of no avail and he had already been pronounced dead.

The suspicious circumstances leading to his mysterious death remain unclear with pre...