AIIMS Patna: Physiology Professor’s 14-year-old son shoots self in Campus
Patna: Panic struck at the residential premises of Patna’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) when a minor son of an Assistant Professor at the institute committed suicide recently by shooting himself in the head.
Akshat, a Class 10 student of a reputed private school, sustained critical injuries when he shot himself on the head from an unlicensed pistol at his residence in the AIIMS residential complex allotted to his father Dr Tribhuvan Kumar, the police informed the news agencies.
Dr Tribhuvan is an associate professor in the physiology department of AIIMS-Patna. Even though the incident took place on the AIIMS campus, Akshat was rushed to a private hospital on Bailey Road in a critical condition.
Sources told UNI that the boy was rushed to Paras Hospital where he died during treatment.
According to a police statement to IANS, a suicide note and a pistol were found from Akshat's room.
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