A seventh standard student died under suspicious circumstances at a private residential educational school on Monday night.

The student, identified as Mallikarjun, was staying at the hostel of the residential school at Kompally under Petbasheerabad police station limits.

According to reports, on Monday night, the boy had dinner at the hostel mess and later went to sleep. A little later, he woke up from sleep and complained of uneasiness. The hostel management rushed him to a private hospital where doctors pronounced dead.