Kundapur : Mystery shrouds the death of a student at a boys hostel near the Sanjay Gandhi School, Amparu on November 29, Thursday.

It is learnt, the 16 year old boy named Dinesh Naik from Belkar, Muddur fell unconscious while having porridge for breakfast in the morning. Though he was immediately rushed to the hospital, he was  declared brought dead.

 Dinesh was a tenth standard student and was the son of Raghu and Parvathi Naik of Muddur and was a healthy  boy.

It is learnt, none of the other 28 boys in the hostel who had breakfast suffered from any illness. Police said the cause of the death of the boy would be known after the post-mortem report was out.

Shankernarayana police have registered a case.