Engg student killed, 14 hurt in police firing

ROURKELA, SEPT 18: An engineering student was killed and 14 others injured when police opened fire inside the regional engineering college (REC) campus here to disperse a group of irate students last night, official sources said today.

The police resorted to firing, that killed third year mechanical engineering student G R Sujit, when lathicharge and teargas shells failed to pacify the students who went on rampage within the residence of the REC principal Prof A K Mohanty.

The students were demanding the principal lodge a complaint against the I G hospital authorities where one of the college students died allegedly due to negligence, the sources said.

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The authorities had declared the college closed sine die while the hostels were vacated this morning.

Trouble started after a student, Sugat Malla, who was admitted to the I G hospital along with another student, died, the doctors said, of cerebral malaria.