A female student has died after falling from the fourth floor of her hostel at the Fatima Jinnah Medical University in Lahore.

According to initial reports, fellow students found her lying injured and informed the university administration. She was rushed to the emergency department of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and later moved to the operation theatre.

Hospital sources reported that she sustained head and neck injuries along with multiple fractures, and underwent neurosurgery performed by a team of senior doctors but did not survive.

The student was a resident of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

 

Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Khalid Masood Gondal said the incident took place at the girls’ hostel of the varsity, and described it as an accidental fall.

He added that a medical board comprising senior doctors had been constituted, along with a separate five-member fact-finding committee headed by Dean Undergraduates Prof Bilquis Shabbir, to investigate the incident. A report will be submitted within 24 hours.

Meanwhile, eyewitnesses and some sources at the institute claimed the student had jumped from the building but no reason for the incident was immediately known.

 

A police probe is also underway.