Mystery Shrouds Mansehra Schoolgirl’s Death On Campus

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MANSEHRA: As mystery surrounded a schoolgirl’s death on campus in the Hilkot area here on 22nd March, the police began an investigation.

“We’re trying to ascertain what exactly happened to the girl,” additional SHO of the Battal police station Shujaat Hussain Shah told reporters.

He said the body was shifted to a health centre to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

Mehrun Nisa Naseem complained to police that her 14-year-old eighth-grade daughter went to the Government Middle School Hilkot in the morning but at around 1230 noon, she was informed about her death.

“A teacher informed me over the phone that my daughter’s body is lying in the school’s backyard, so I rushed there with my family members and found the body in a pool of blood,” she said.

The woman claimed that her daughter died by suicide.

The police shifted the body to the Battal rural health centre for postmortem.

Additional SHO Shujaat Shah said the police had collected “circumstantial evidence from the crime scene” and initiated an investigation to ascertain the exact cause of the death.

He said the girl’s annual examinations were underway.

Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2025

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