Another Nepali girl student of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneshwar, India was found dead inside a college hostel on Thursday.

According to the preliminary reports received by the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi, a BTech first year student is presumed to have died by suicide in her room on the fourth floor of the hostel. She was found dead at around 8:00 pm on Thursday.

“The girl is from Birgunj,” Surendra Thapa, deputy chief of mission at the Nepali Embassy, told the Post.

“The room is said to have been locked from inside. The reason is yet to be ascertained.”

As soon as the incident surfaced, the university administration had informed the local Odisha police. The police then recovered the body and kept it with the local administration. The police communicated to the Nepali embassy that they will wait for the parents of the deceased to reach Bhubaneshwar before the postmortem examination is conducted.

The incident comes two-and-a-half months after the death of Prakriti Lamsal, another Nepali student, who was found dead in the same university. The Odisha State government had formed a team to investigate the death but its findings have yet to be made public. Prakriti had reportedly died by suicide on February 16, allegedly following torture by her own classmate.

The twin deaths have raised questions about the safety of Nepali students at the KIIT.

According to DCM Thapa, the local police have taken the body into control and launched an investigation. “We are in touch with the college administration, the local police and the chief secretary of Odisha state,” Thapa told the Post.

According to sources at Nepali Embassy in New Delhi, Shankar Sharma, the Nepali ambassador to India, reached out to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, the Odisha government, and KIIT administration immediately after the incident was reported.

More details will be made public tomorrow [Friday] once the postmortem is conducted and the college administration provides more details, Thapa said.

“The Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner, S. Dev Datta Singh, informed about the incident,” the local Odishatv.in reports. “The dead body was reportedly recovered in one of the girls’ hostels of the varsity.”

The university administration has not shared any information about the incident yet.

Police Commissioner of Bhubaneshwar S Dev Datta Singh told local journalists that on Thursday evening at around 7PM, when attendance was being taken, the concerned student, who was alone in the room, did not respond.

“We are conducting an investigation [into the incident],” Singh said. “Prima facie, no note has been found in the immediate surroundings of the body. However, the scientific team is conducting a search. An unnatural death case has been registered.”