The police resorted to firing, that killed third year mechanical engineering student G R Sujit, when lathicharge and teargas shells failed to pacify the students who went on rampage within the residence of the REC principal Prof A K Mohanty.

The students were demanding the principal lodge a complaint against the I G hospital authorities where one of the college students died allegedly due to negligence, the sources said.

The authorities had declared the college closed sine die while the hostels were vacated this morning.

Trouble started after a student, Sugat Malla, who was admitted to the I G hospital along with another student, died, the doctors said, of cerebral malaria.