Balaghat (MP), Jul 28 (PTI) An 18-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison after failing to clear the Madhya Pradesh HSC exams, police said on Tuesday.

The girl, a resident of Mohbarra village in Ugli area of Seoni district, consumed poison at around 4:30pm on Monday and was admitted in a hospital in Balaghat where she died a few hours later, police official Hukumchand Uikey said.

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Ugli police is conducting further probe, the official informed.

The HSC exam results were declared on Monday.

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