Ballia (UP), Aug 5 (PTI) A 16-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death from a tree inside the premises of a government college here on Saturday, police said.

Golu Gond's body was found hanging in the morning from a tree inside the Government Inter College here, Kotwali SHO Rajeev Singh said.

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On being informed, the police reached the spot and sent the body for post-mortem, Singh said.

Gond was a resident of the Bankata Subhash Nagar locality here, the police said.

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"Prima facie this appears to be a case of suicide. We are investigating the matter," the SHO said.

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