Medical student kills self in Bareilly hostel

Bareilly: A 22-year-old student of MBBS at a local medical college here committed suicide in her hostel room here, police said.

When Priyanka Singh, who had taken admission in the MBBS course in SMRS medical college in 2012 , did not turn up for breakfast and lunch today, her friends went to her hostel room where she was found hanging from the ceiling fan, college PRO said.

The body has been sent for post mortem examination and reasons leading to the extreme step were being ascertained, said SP (rural) Brijesh Srivastava.