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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Formulate model SOP for trekking safety in Karnataka: Minister Khandre tells officials
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Eshwar Khandre has instructed authorities to formulate a standard operating procedure (SOP) for trekking safety, intended to serve as a national model.
The Minister issued the instruction in writing to the chief wildlife warden in the wake of the disappearance of a woman from Kerala in the dense Tadiandamol forest, and the search for a minor girl in Chandradrona hills, his office said in a release on Thursday.
Like the ‘e-Gastu’ app already developed by the Forest Department and the ‘MStripes’ app used in tiger reserves, if a similar kind of app is temporarily installed on the mobile phones of trekkers during the trek, it will be easier to track those who go astray, hence the Forest Minister has directed to take steps to develop the app and provide group insurance to trekkers, it said.
In addition, Khandre has suggested that nature guides should be equipped with wireless communication sets and they should be held accountable for safety and coordination of trekking groups under their supervision, it added.
