Another Nepal student found dead in Odisha’s KIIT over 2 months after similar incident rocked institute

Nepal Student Death: Sources the hostel warden found the girl dead in her room at around 8 pm and informed the police. She was a first-year engineering student of the institute and hailed from Birgunj in Nepal.

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KIIT authorities said the police are investigating and that the institution is cooperating with the process.

2 min readBhubaneswarMay 2, 2025 09:37 AM IST First published on: May 2, 2025 at 06:50 AM IST

KIIT Student Death News: More than two months after the suicide of a 20-year-old student from Nepal rocked Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Bhubaneswar, another student from the country was found dead in a hostel room at the institute on Thursday.

Sources the hostel warden found the girl dead in her room at around 8 pm and informed the police. She was a first-year engineering student of the institute and hailed from Birgunj in Nepal.

Senior police officers, including Bhubaneswar Police Commissioner S Dev Dutta Singh, rushed to the spot. An investigation has been launched.

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According to officials, she did not respond when attendance was taken at 7 pm. Afterwards, she was found dead in the room. Commissioner Singh said police reached the spot with a scientific team and that the room was being examined.

Sujit Bisoyi

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