India, May 2 -- India on Friday said the Odisha Police is investigating the death of a Nepali student at Odisha's Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University, the second such incident involving a Nepali student at the institution in less than three months.

The body of the student enrolled in a computer science programme was found hanging in her room in the girls' hostel on Thursday evening, police officials said. Bhubaneswar-Cuttack police commissioner Suresh Dev Datta Singh said the matter is being treated as an unnatural death.

On February 16, another Nepali girl, enrolled in a BTech course at KIIT University, was found dead in her hostel room. Her death triggered protests by Nepali students at the institution and was...