Student dies after ‘watching horror movie’ in Rewa

REWA (MP): A 21-year-old engineering student in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district died of a heart attack on Saturday after watching a regional language horror movie

REWA (MP): A 21-year-old engineering student in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district died of a heart attack on Saturday after watching a regional language horror movie clip, police said.

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The incident came two days after a 68-year-old man died while watching the Hollywood horror movie, The Conjuring 2, in Tamil Nadu.

The Bachelor of Engineering student, Vimlesh Pandey was found dead on Saturday in a rented room in Rewa’s Indira Nagar locality, where he stayed with cousin, sources said.

Vimlesh appeared in the last paper of the ongoing BE-Final examination at JNCT on Friday. After having dinner, he downloaded a horror movie clip on his cellphone and started watching it while his cousin went to sleep, sources added.

“On Saturday morning, Vimlesh’s cousin tried to wake him up, but when the BE student didn’t wake up, neighbours were called,” said SGMH police outpost in-charge RB Sharma. “He was rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead.”

Meanwhile, doctors who performed the autopsy said he died of a heart attack.