First year BSc nursing student commits suicide at AIIMS

An 18-year-old girl from Delhi doing bachelor in nursing from AIIMS, Rishikesh, allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from ceiling fan in her hostel room, police said in Dehradun on Wednesday.

The first year BSc nursing student at AIIMS was found hanged in her hostel room on Tuesday, police said. No suicide note has been found from the scene of the incident, they said, adding factors which may have led the girl to take the extreme step are being probed.

Relatives of the girl, residents of Najafgarh in Delhi, arrived Rishikesh on Wednesday after being informed of the incident and have been handed over the body, police said.