Just three months after Prakriti Lamsal's death triggered protests, another Nepali student, Preesa Sha, has been found dead in her KIIT hostel room.
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00:01A Nepali student was found dead in a hostel room at Odisha's KIIT Engineering College on 1st May 2025,
00:08just three months after another Nepali student had died by suicide on the same campus.
00:13Prisa Shah, a first-year BTEC computer science student from Birganch, Nepal, was the deceased.
00:18Authorities informed both her parents and the Nepal embassy, and her body was sent to AIMS Bhubaneswar for post-mortem.
00:24In February, 21-year-old Prakriti Lamsal, a third-year BTEC student, was found dead in a hostel room.
00:29Her death had sparked protests by over 500 Nepali students.
00:33Tensions escalated further after reports surfaced that college authorities had attempted to evict some students,
00:39prompting diplomatic intervention.
00:41Lamsal's friends alleged she died by suicide after being harassed by her ex-boyfriend, Adhivik Shivastav,
00:46who was later arrested.
00:47In Prisa Shah's case, the cause of death was still under investigation.