18-yr-old girl commits suicide

Apparently upset over delay in the formation of a separate Telangana state,an 18-year-old girl student allegedly committed suicide by immolating herself at Koheda village near here on Sunday,the police said.

D Bhavani,a first-year intermediate student,shut herself in a room at her house,doused herself with kerosene and set herself on fire at around 9.30 am,Hayathnagar Inspector of Police B Bhasker said,adding the girl die on the spot.

Bhavani had purportedly written (in Telugu) on the room wall that she was taking the extreme step as “there was a failure in declaring a separate Telangana state and no one was responsible for her death”,the police said. They added that a case has been registered.