Islamabad: A Pakistani-Hindu medical student was found dead in her hostel room at the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU) in Larkana, media reports said on Tuesday.
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Nimrita Kumari, a student of the SMBBMU’s Bibi Aseefa Dental College, was found dead on Monday in her hostel room, the university administration confirmed.
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The body found lying on a charpoy with a rope tied to her neck while her room was locked from inside, The Express Tribune reported.
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Nimrita’s friends grew worried when she did not respond to their knocks on the door for several minutes.
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“She was neither responding to the knocking at the door nor to our shouts,” one of her friends told the police.
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The hostel’s watchman later broke open the door and found her dead, reports said.
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Kumari was enrolled in the university’s Bachelor of Dental Surgery programme and was a final-year student, reports The News International.
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IGP Sindh has taken notice of a dead body recovered from Medical College hostel and seek detail report from SSP Larkana https://t.co/i4DDspT9nu
— Sohail Ahmed Jokhyo (@JokhyoSohail) September 16, 2019
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The university’s Vice-Chancellor, Aneela Atta-ur-Rahman they had formed a committee to probe Kumari’s alleged suicide. It would be headed by the principal of Larkana’s Chandka Medical College, she added.
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The late student’s parents, who live in Karachi, had been informed, the Vice-Chancellor added.
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The police has also launched an investigation into the case.
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