India, May 2 -- A Nepali student was found dead inside his hostel room in Bhubaneswar's Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) on Thursday, marking the second death of a person from the Himalayan country in the campus in less than three months.

The first-year student was reportedly studying computer science at the Odisha-based university.

She hails from Nepal's Birgunj area.

Sources told The Indian Express newspaper that the hostel warden found the girl dead in her room at around 8 pm and informed the police.

Senior police officials rushed to the university after the body was recovered.

An investigation is currently underway.

"We have registered an unnatural death case and started probe into the matter. If we find that an...