Bhubaneswar, April 9 A 19-year-old trainee Agniveer from Uttar Pradesh is alleged to have died by suicide on the INS Chilka campus in Khurda district of Odisha, police said on Thursday.
The deceased has been identified as Kartik Yadav, a native of Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh. He was found hanging from a ceiling fan inside a room on the campus on Wednesday, a police officer said.
His colleagues and other staff members brought him down and took him to a medical facility on the campus, where he was declared dead, he said.
"We have registered a case of unnatural death and have started an investigation. The body was handed over to his family after a post-mortem examination," the officer said.
During the preliminary investigation, it was found that Yadav hanged himself when other trainees were busy with their work, he added.
