21 April,2023 06:00 PM IST | Chennai | ANI
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A second-year B Tech student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras died by suicide on campus, police said on Friday.
The student was a native of Madhya Pradesh. This is the fourth case of a student suicide reported this year from IIT Madras and the 12th since 2018.
"The body was taken for autopsy and a preliminary investigation is underway on the IIT Madras campus," said an officer of Chennai Police.
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Further details on the incident are awaited.
Earlier, on April 2, a PhD student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, died by suicide in his room in Tamil Nadu's Velachery, police told media.
The student was a native of West Bengal and was aged 32.
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