Guwahati, June 26 -- Police on Thursday discovered skeletal remains, suspected to be those of a Sikkim school teacher who went missing approximately seven months ago, from a house in Siliguri, West Bengal.

According to District Superintendent of Police Karma Gyamtso Bhutia, authorities believe Passang Doma Sherpa, a Nepali teacher at a government school in Namchi district, Sikkim, is the deceased. She had been missing since August 7, 2024, and her family filed a missing persons report at the Namchi police station.

"The police in both Sikkim and West Bengal investigated the case, and they found the skeletal remains of the missing teacher in the bedroom of a house she owned at Devidanga locality in Siliguri city," SP Bhutia stated.

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