Kozhikode: A student, who jumped off the hostel building at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kozhikode, died on Monday. The deceased Yogiswarnath Mothukuru, a third-year Mechanical engineering student, was a native of Mumbai in Maharashtra.
Yogiswarnath leapt off the seventh floor of the C-Block Boys Mega hostel around 6.30 am on Monday. Prior to the suicide attempt, he had sent a message to his family. They immediately notified the campus authorities but the officials found him lying on the ground. Despite being immediately rushed to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital, Yogiswarnath was declared dead on arrival. An autopsy will be conducted later.
According to reports from Manorama News, students at the campus have voiced concerns about the lack of counselling facilities by authorities to help them cope with academic stress, leading them to stress and depression.