Another Nepal student found dead at Odisha institute two months after 20-year-old’s suicide

Over two months after a 20-year-old student from Nepal was said to have died by suicide at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, another student from the neighbouring country was found dead in the university on Thursday, India Today reported.

The student was found dead in her room in one of the girls’ hostels around 7 pm, India Today quoted unidentified police officers as saying. She was from Birgunj in Nepal and was in her first year of engineering at the institute, The Indian Express reported.

The police along with a scientific team arrived at the spot and a case of unnatural death was registered, Bhubaneswar Police Commissioner S Dev Datta Singh told India Today. An investigation has been initiated into the death, he added.

Singh said that the students at the hostel were being questioned in the matter. “We have recovered the body and sent it to All India Institute Of Medical Sciences for autopsy,” The Indian Express quoted him as saying.

Officials in the Nepal embassy in New Delhi were informed about the death, Singh said, adding that they had contacted the parents of the student.

This was the second death of a Nepali student at the institute in less than three months. On February 16, a 20-year-old student from the neighbouring country was found dead in the university hostel. She...

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