Jaffna Uni. student hangs himself [July 04 2014]

A third year male student attached to the Arts faculty of the Jaffna University hanged himself from a mango tree this morning, the police said.

The 24-year-old victim had hanged himself in the compound of his boarding house on Kalayalei Lane on Kankesanthurai Road. He was a resident of Vavuniya.

The body is lying at the Jaffna Hospital Morgue for the post mortem. The motive behind the act is yet to be ascertained.