alapuzha kerala athletes at the sports authority of indias centre are undergoing counselling sessions to get over the trauma of recent suicide attempt by their four colleagues of whom one had died over alleged harassment by seniors an official of the water training centre said the fourday counselling session which began on monday would continue for two more days most of the athletes are in a disturbed state but they were recouping the official said adding tomorrow onetoone sessions would be held the athletes have also begun training sessions and are slowly returning to normalcy kerala human rights commission chief investigating officer d srijit also visited the campus and spoke to the athletes the four students in an alleged suicide pact had consumed a poisonous fruit locally called othalanga last week the sai authorities have chopped off the shrub of othalanga cerbera odollom known as suicide fruit from near the campus the shrub grows wild in coastal and swampy areas in many parts of kerala meanwhile the condition of the three athletes undergoing treatment at the alapuzha medical college hospital continues to be stable but they need some observation for few more days according to the hospital superintendent dr santosh raghavan