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The spate of suicides continues unabated in Delhi AIIMS.

A second-year medical student ended his life by jumping off the roof of a hostel in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

Vikas, 22, who hailed from Bengaluru, was admitted in the psychiatry ward of the hospital and was undergoing treatment for some mental health problems.

According to Atul Kumar Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Vikas had taken an hour's break from the ward. He then apparently reached the Hostel-19 roof from where he jumped.

The student was moved to the Trauma Centre where he was declared dead during the course of treatment, said Mr Thakur.

The incident was reported to the police at around 6 pm, he added.

On July 10 too, a 25-year-old psychiatrist committed suicide by jumping off the 10th floor of the doctor’s hostel at AIIMS. The deceased, Anurag Kumar, was a junior resident doctor and had been seeking treatment for depression.

Also, a young journalist being treated for Covid-19 at AIIMS-Delhi, recently jumped to his death.