Two girls found hanging at SAI hostel in Kerala's Kollam
Kollam: Two sports trainees were found hanging in a room at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) hostel in Kollam on Thursday morning, police said.
The deceased girls, aged 17 and 15, were residents of Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram. They were found around 5 am when the other hostellers noticed that the two had not turned up for the morning training session, NDTV reported.
According to police, repeated knocks on the door of the room went unanswered, hostel authorities broke open the door and found both girls hanging in the room.
The 15-year-old girl was staying in a different room but had spent Wednesday night in the other girl's room. The two were last seen together by other hostel inmates early in the morning, police said.
The 17-year-old girl was an athletics trainee studying in Class 12, while the other one was a kabaddi player and a Class 10 student.
No suicide note was recovered from the room, police said. Further investigation is under way.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
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Patna-bound IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Lucknow due to bad weather
Lucknow (PTI): Adverse weather forced an IndiGo Kolkata-Patna flight to make an emergency landing at Lucknow airport on Friday, airport sources said.
According to airport officials, weather conditions in Patna deteriorated suddenly on Friday afternoon, affecting flight operations.
IndiGo flight 6E 6917 from Kolkata, which was scheduled to land in Patna at 3.50 pm, could not land due to bad weather and kept circling in the air after failing to get clearance from air traffic control, they said.
The flight was later diverted to Lucknow and landed safely at the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport at around 5.15 pm. There were 180 passengers and six crew members on board, officials said.
The aircraft was later allowed to depart for Patna after weather conditions improved.
