Two engg. students leap to death

HYDERABAD: A second year engineering student leapt to his death from the tenth floor of a building at Singapore Township in Ghatkesar on Friday.

M. Abishek (20), hailing from Pondicherry, was pursuing avionics course in Srinidhi Engineering College at M.M. Pet in Ghatkesar.

The incident came to light when a security guard, Suryanarayana, noticed the body on the ground floor and alerted the police. The student was staying in a hostel in Singapore Township.

Ghatkesar Sub-Inspector I. Jagdish said the exact reasons behind the student’s death were yet to be ascertained. An autopsy would be conducted at Gandhi Hospital mortuary after the arrival of his parents from Pondicherry on Saturday.

Jumps from hostel

An engineering third year student ended his life on Friday evening by jumping from a private hostel building near Yadagiri theatre in Kanchanbagh, allegedly after his friends made some sarcastic comments on his behaviour, the police said.

Vidya Sagar, 20, from Pasra in Warangal district, used to live in a rented house at DS Nagar with his classmates. On Friday evening, he came to the private hostel to meet his friends.

“We’re told the student got annoyed after some of his friends made some veiled comments connecting him to some thefts recently reported there,” the police said.

Around 6.45 p.m., Sagar went up the hostel building and jumped to death, the police told reporters.

Old man dies

Meanwhile, a 72-year-old man died after falling from a five-storeyed commercial complex in Koti on Friday. He has been identified as Somchand Shah of Kacheguda.