Mangalore, November 29: Facing stiff opposition from family members, a minor girl and boy in love, on Wednesday attempted suicide by consuming poison on board a moving bus.
The girl identified as Manasa, a I PUC student at a college in Chikballapur died in the sleeper coach of the bus, while her lover Manjunath, a II PUC student of the same college breathed his last at a hospital in Mangalore.
The couple had boarded the bus at Nelamangala near Bangalore Tuesday night after buying two tickets to Kundapur.
Eye witnesses said that when all the passengers alighted at Kundapur early on Wednesday morning, the bus conductor found a boy and a girl sleeping together in an unconscious condition.
They were immediately rushed to nearby hospital, where the girl was pronounced brought dead. The boy whose was still alive was later shifted to Government Wenlock Hospital in Mangalore. However, he succumbed to death at around 6 a.m. on Thursday without responding to any treatment.
Police, who rushed to the spot found poisonous tablets in the berth where the couple had slept. A case has been registered at Kundapur police station and investigations are on.
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