Bhubaneswar, Oct. 1: Two students committed suicide in separate incidents by jumping in front of speeding trains at different places in the city.

Police said Abhayendra Kumar Yadav, a 20-year-old engineering student from Bihar, killed himself by jumping in front of the Sambalpur Intercity Express this morning at Lingaraj station. In the second incident, a student of Utkal University committed suicide by hurling himself in front of a goods train near Bomikhal level crossing in the afternoon.

Government Railway Police (GRP) officials said Yadav committed suicide because he failed to get good marks in his semester examination.

Yadav, who hails from Champaran district in Bihar, was studying at a private engineering college near Jatni on the outskirts of the city. His friends said he had tried to commit suicide on six earlier occasions.

Yadav, a second-year student of mechanical engineering, had secured more than 90 per cent in his Class X and Class XI examinations.

Recently, his third semester results were announced and he managed to secure 7.8 cumulative grade point average (CGPA), which works out to around 78 per cent. Unhappy with this, he ended his life.

“For several days he was very upset. We had been keeping close a watch on his activities because he was attempting to kill himself. Today, we were standing at the railway station when he managed to evade our attention and jumped in front of the approaching train,” said Aditya, a friend of the deceased.

Yadav’s parents are government employees in Bihar. His younger brother is preparing for IIT entrance examinations.

The railway police have kept his body in the morgue of Capital Hospital.

“We have informed his parents and after they come here, the post-mortem will be conducted,” said inspector in-charge of GRP, Bhubaneswar, S.R. Kar.

In the second incident, Mithun Chakrabarthy Rai, 24, killed himself by jumping in front of a goods train near Bomikhal level crossing around 5pm.

“We seized an identity card from him which mentioned Madhusudan Hostel, Utkal University, as the issuer. We have no other information about him as his mobile phone has been destroyed. We are trying to gather more information about him,” said a senior GRP official.