Kashmiri Student Found Dead In Punjab

SRINAGAR: A 22-year-old nursing student from Kashmir was found hanging at his hostel room in Bathinda’s Katar Singh Wala on Saturday evening, reported Hindustan Times.

Quoting police sources newspaper reported that the deceased (name withheld) was studying in the second year of BSc (nursing) at Punjab Nursing College on Bathinda-Mansa road.

Prima facie it appeared to be a suicide case, the report quoted a police official aa having said.

Sources said, after taking leave from his academic work on Saturday afternoon, the deceased student went to his hostel, where his friends later found him hanging with a ceiling fan. He was rushed to a private hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The deceased’s family has been contacted and the matter is being investigated, Hindustan Times quoted police official as having said.