nagpur as city police reported one more engineering students suicide on wednesday the number of students suicides in nagpur district has reached 94 in the last six months say statistics collected by social worker seema sakhares suicide prevention helpline organization twentytwoyearold kunal shedke hanged himself at his guruprasad nagar in wadi area after failing twice in the second year mechanical stream this is the fifth students suicide in the last ten days on tuesday 19yearold rupam thakre who had taken admission to lit just a month ago ended his life at his rented room in nsk society in ambazari area though no suicide note was found kunals family members said that on tuesday kunal had texted his elder brother ashwin in which he said he was thinking of ending his life since then ashwin had tried hard to distract him the family refused to share the sms with toi kunal had a limited friend circle and was close to ashwin who works at orissa figures provided by sakhare say that among 125 suicides in august in nagpur district 18 were students according to the statistics collected by her organization 609 people including 93 students 64 girls and 39 boys committed suicide from march to september this year among nonstudents too the number of women was quite high at 391 as against 125 men kunals drastic step over failure has once again brought into focus the various pressures faced by students the teenagers relatives told toi that though kunal had good scores in std x and xii he could not cope with the burden of engineering studies the academic pressure even resulted into a migraine problem since last six months kunal somehow cleared the first year but failed twice in the second year planning to have a fresh start again he took a break this year said his brotherinlaw who refused to be named on wednesday night after having dinner together with his parents kunal was with his mother lata a housewife till midnight later he went to his room to study kunals father raghunath is a senior accountant at director of accounts postal around 130am before going to sleep lata had gone to check kunal and found him studying around 5am when lata again went to check on kunal she found him hanging from the ceiling fan with a bed sheet on being informed by residents wadi police rushed kunal to mayo hospital where he was declared brought dead with suicides and suicidal tendencies among youngsters reaching worrying levels sakhares organization is flooded with desperate calls we have been attending hundreds of calls per day and most common causes are relationship problems academic pressure quarrel with parents or financial stress said sakhare