A 17-year-old Class XII student, who had been living in a relief camp since the beginning of the Manipur crisis in May 2023, was found dead on Tuesday. Officials said the girl appeared to have committed suicide at the Limaram High School relief camp in Bishnupur district.
The girl was a resident of Limaram Warwiching, but was displaced to the school-turned-shelter nearly three years ago. At the time of her death, she was preparing for her high school exams, which began on February 17.
No suicide note was found. But the girl recently told her family that she longs to return home.
“A few days ago, the girl asked her family members to return to their home, and she did not want to stay in the relief camp,” an official said.
She was found dead in the camp on Tuesday morning.
Nambool Police Station registered a case of unnatural death. Her body was handed over to her family after an autopsy at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Imphal.
In December last year, the government began resettling 257 internally displaced people who were staying at the Limaram Secondary School relief camp.
Manipur has been witnessing widespread ethnic violence since May 2023 in a large-scale conflict that has claimed the lives of at least 260 people and displaced 50,000 others. The clashes, which first started between the Meite and Kuki communities, have since affected almost every community in the state, leading to the dismissal of the state government in February this year.
