Hyderabad, May 2 -- In a tragic incident, a third year BTech student studying in Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology (MGIT) in Gandipet, immolated herself and died at her residence under the Meerpet police station's limits on Saturday, May 2.

As per reports, Keerthi (23), a resident of New Maruthi Nagar in Badangpet municipality returned home from college on Saturday, doused herself in diesel, and set herself on fire.

This was the second such incident this week, after a 19-year-old engineering student of Osmania University had lost his life after attempting suicide by self-immolation on April 28, allegedly over a failed love affair.

Her parents were known to have migrated to Hyderabad in search of a livelihood few years ago.

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