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 around 8: 00 pm Thursday evening.

“It is an incident from Thursday and 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 incident was surfaced, the university administration had informed the local Odisha police. The police then recovered the dead body and kept it in the local administration. And the police stated to the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi that until parents of the deceased will not arrive Bhubaneshwar, they will not permit them to carry out the postmortem of the dead body. Another Nepali girl, Prakriti Lamsal was found dead after suicide in the same university on February 16 whose investigation report is yet to be out. The local Odisha State government had set up a investigation team over the death of Lamsal but the reason behind her death is yet to be made public. 

According to him, local police have taken the body 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.

Also, 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, sources at Nepali Embassy in Delhi said.

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

The tragic incident took place two and a half months after a Nepali student was found dead in the same university hostel.

Prakriti Lamsal of Rupandehi district was found dead on the university campus in mid-February.

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