A Chinese national arrested for illegally entering India died at a government hospital in Muzaffarpur city in Bihar on Tuesday. He had allegedly tried to commit suicide in jail on June 7.

The Bihar police arrested Li Jiaqi, 60, a native of the Shandong province of China, from Lakshmi Chowk under the Brahmapura police station area on June 5.

He was not carrying a visa or any valid documents to prove he had legally entered India. A Chinese passport, a mobile phone, a map of China, Indian, Nepalese and Chinese currencies, three small statues and a few other things were found on him.

An FIR was registered under The Foreigners Act, 1946. He was interrogated by enforcement and intelligence agencies before being produced in the local court on June 6, which forwarded him to judicial custody. He was lodged at the Khudiram Bose Central Jail.

Jiaqi was allegedly found unconscious and bleeding in a jail washroom with multiple injuries in his neck, stomach and private parts. The jail authorities rushed him to the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), where he died of the injuries on Tuesday.

“Jiaqi had used shards of his eyeglasses to inflict injuries on himself on June 7 in the toilet of his ward. An inmate of his ward informed us. We rushed him to the SKMCH, where he was being treated. He was stable and was kept in the general ward of the hospital. He was to be discharged soon. But we suddenly got information that he has passed away,” Khudiram Bose Central Jail superintendent Brijesh Singh Mehta told The Telegraph.

Mehta added that the Chinese embassy has been informed and the body would be preserved till anyone claimed it.

“We have registered a case of unnatural death at the nearest police station. The court has been informed and a magisterial inquiry will follow as per the protocol in such incidents,” he said.

SKMCH superintendent Vibha Kumari said Jiaqi passed away at 5.19am on Tuesday.

“Jiaqi had said he had fled China as he was afraid that somebody would murder him there,” Vibha said.