Police find bodies of two schoolgirls

ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh Police have found the decomposed bodies of two schoolgirls in East Siang district. The corpses were found from Loklung bamboo garden near Ngorlung village under Ruksin circle of the district on Saturday, a source said.

The bodies have been identified to be that of 15-year-old Rinky Lohar, a Class VIII student of Govt HS School Ruksin, and Laxmi Kumari Prasad (16), a Class IX student of the same school who reportedly went missing last Monday.

An FIR has been lodged at Ruksin police station. The sources further informed that the girls had committed suicide by hanging themselves with a scarf (chunni). After post-mortem, the bodies were handed over to their relatives. A case of unnatural death has been registered.