Hyderabad: During the counting of votes for Jubilee Hills Assembly by-elections, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate Mohammed Anwar died of a suspected cardiac arrest on Friday.

A 40-year-old, Anwar secured 78 votes in the by-election. Anwar, a resident of Erragadda, had reportedly been anxiously waiting for the counting since morning when he collapsed with severe chest pain. Family members immediately took him to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

Anwar had contested the by-poll from the Nationalist Congress Party and was allotted a clock as the symbol.