19-year-old nursing student found hanging in M’luru hostel

19-year-old nursing student found hanging in M’luru hostel

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mangaluru:07.10.2021

A 19-year-old first-year nursing student was found hanging in the hostel of a city hospital early Tuesday. In a note left behind, Nina, from Kadumeni village in Kasaragod stated that she was unwilling to “burden” her family with her education expenses, adding that her mother was not being paid regularly due to the pandemic and she did not want to add to her difficulties.

Sources said Nina had enrolled for the 2020-21 BSc nursing course and was worried about being able to continue her studies as her mother was single-handedly running the household. She was found hanging in the hostel bathroom and was rushed to a private hospital but couldn’t be saved.

“Since there were several allegations and suspicions about her death, I visited the college, interacted with her roommates at the hostel and met her parents and brother-inlaw,” city police commissioner N Shashi Kumar said. An unnatural death report has been registered at the Mangaluru East police station. The investigating team recovered a note, in Malayalam, that was probably written a day before her death. A hospital staff member who knows the language was asked to read it out.

In the note, Nina mentioned that ₹75,000 has been paid as fees and on paying the remaining amount, she would be provided with the uniform. Due to the pandemic, her mother’s salary was affected and Nina felt it would be tough for her family to meet her expenses under these circumstances, police said. Nina’s mother Jancy works as a deposit collection agent in a bank in Taliparamba.

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