Goa-based environmentalist and Catholic priest Fr Bolmax Pereira passed away at a state-run hospital near Panaji on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack, doctors said. He was 50.

Cause of death

Fr Pereira, who spearheaded several environmental agitations and was serving as a priest at St Francis Xavier Church,

Chicalim in South Goa, suffered a heart attack at Vasco railway station on Saturday when he was on his way to a picnic along with parishioners.