Mystery shrouds deaths of two teenagers in Odisha’s Sundargarh, Rayagada

ROURKELA/BERHAMPUR: Mystery shrouds the separate deaths of two teenagers whose bodies were found in Sundargarh and Rayagada districts on Monday.

In Sundargarh, the highly-decomposed body of a 19-year-old girl was retrieved from Jhuria nullah inside a forest near Kandar village within Gurundia police limits in Bonai sub-division.

Police said the girl, Gouri Kisan of Dalia village, was missing since January 2. She was last seen with Rajesh Kisan, a youth of nearby Kansar village. Some villagers spotted the girl’s body in the nullah and informed police. The body was decomposed beyond recognition. Gouri’s family members identified the body from her clothes and belongings.