Mangalore: 18-year-old missing girl found dead at Bolar
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (VM)
Mangalore, Sep 26: The body of a teenaged girl who went missing on Saturday September 21 was found at a riverside in Bolar here.
The deceased has been identified as Akshata (18), a second BCom student in a college at Car Street here. She was a resident of Adyar.
Sources said that Akshata had left home on Saturday telling her family that she had to attend a special class in college. However, she did not return home.
Anxious family members filed a missing complaint on Sunday September 22 in Mangalore rural police station.
The body was found near a riverside on Tuesday September 24, but the family members came to know the next day. On Thursday September 26 morning, the body was taken to Wenlock for post-mortem.
A neighbour said that Akshata was a well behaved girl and could not possibly have committed suicide. She was friendly with a boy named Madan from Manjeshwar studying in the same college, the neighbor said, expressing suspicion that she might have been murdered.
Further investigations are on.