University student, 18, known to his friends as Mr Muscles
dies 'after taking fat-burning pills'
A university student known as 'Mr Muscles' has died after
apparently taking 'lethal' bodybuilding pills to help him lose weight.
Fitness fanatic Sarmad Alladin, 18, who had posted snaps of
his new muscles online, was taken to hospital just hours after praising the
fat-burning tablets called DNP on Facebook.
Mr Alladin, an
international student and son of an Indian millionaire, called an ambulance as
he suddenly collapsed.
He was living in university accommodation in Epsom, Surrey,
while attending the specialist art and design university in nearby Farnham.
A friend told The
Sun: 'He wasn't the type to put something like that into his body, so clearly
they're misleading. I've cried so much since he died.'
Last week the
University for the Creative Arts warned its students: 'It has come to the
University's attention that some very dangerous weight-loss and body-building
drugs could be circulating among students.
'If you have bought or obtained Dinitrophenol or Dymetadrine
tablets online or anywhere else, please stop using them immediately. The drugs
are potentially lethal.'
Vice-chancellor Dr
Simon Ofield-Kerr said: 'As a university we are devastated by the untimely and
tragic passing of one of our students, Sarmad Alladin. Our sympathies are with
his family and friends at this difficult time.'
Last night Mr Alladin's family, who flew to UK from
Hyderabad, were awaiting the results of a post mortem.
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