Hyderabad: Class VII student dies under suspicious circumstances

The student, identified as Mallikarjun, was staying at the hostel of the residential school at Kompally under Petbasheerabad police station limits

Hyderabad: A seventh standard student died under suspicious circumstances at a private residential educational school at Petbasheerabad on Monday night.

The child K Mallikarjun was a hostel boarder at the residential school in Kompally for last few years while his parents were natives of Medak district.

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According to the police, on Monday night, the boy had dinner at the hostel mess and went to sleep. A little later, he woke up from sleep and cried loudly. His roommates, who noticed this, did not pursue further, as they thought the boy might have had a bad dream.

“Around 5 am, the hostel warden came to the room and checked Mallikarjun. When the boy did not respond to him, the warden along with others rushed the child to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead,” official of Petbasheerabad police station said.

On a complaint, the police rushed to the hospital and shifted the body to the mortuary for postmortem examination. The police registered a case and investigating.

The management of the hostel told the police that Mallikarjun had joined the school on Monday after visiting his parents at their village.