Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Feb 2: Apoorva (18) from Perla in Kasargod district, who was a second semester student of Srinivas Institute of Technology at Valachil in the outskirts of the city, slumped to the ground all of a sudden on Thursday February 1 in her hostel, and breathed her last. She was pursuing bachelor of architecture course.
Apoorva, accompanied by a classmate, had finished her lunch and was moving back to her hostel room when she collapsed near her room at about 1.45 pm. Other inmates of the hostel and the warden immediately took her to Fr Muller Hospital at Thumbe. However, the doctors who checked her declared that she had been brought dead. It is suspected that brain hemorrhage would have caused her death.
The student had spent her holidays after the first semester examinations and returned to the hostel on January 31. She had attended classes on February 1 morning. She was the granddaughter of well-known scholar and Yakshagana exponent, Perla Krishna Bhat. She has left behind father, Rajaram Bhat, who owns Gurukul Press at Perla, mother, Radhika, and a sister.
A case of unnatural death was registered in the rural police station here relating to this death.