A Nepalese undergraduate student was found dead in her hostel room at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Bhubaneswar on Thursday evening, marking the second such death involving a Nepalese student at the university within three months.
The student has been identified as a first-year student enrolled in the Computer Science B.Tech programme. She was a native of Birgunj, located approximately 135 km from the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. Her body was discovered hanging from the ceiling fan in her room at one of the institute's girls' hostels, police said.