Nun may have died from drowning: Cops

Kollam: The police on Monday said after the autopsy that the Mount Tabor convent nun's death could be from drowning.

The autopsy at Thiruvananthapuram MCH found the presence of water from well inside her body.

Naphthalene balls were also found inside her belly which points to attempts to suicide before she finally jumped into the well. C.E. Susamma, 55, a nun with the Mount Tabor Dayara convent in Pathanapuram was found dead in a well on its premises on Sunday.

She could have attempted several methods to end her life by including cutting her veins, before jumping into the well, district police chief B. Asokan told DC.

The convent authorities received the body and kept at the Punalur taluk hospital.

The body will be laid to rest at the Mount Tabor church on Tuesday. The nun was depressed apparently due to the physical ailments she suffered.

On Sunday, she did not turn up for the morning prayers, and other nuns found her body in the well on their return.

They also found traces of blood stains in her room and the curb of the well.

Her hair was cut and both wrists slit. Daughter of Koshi and Rahelamma of Chittoor Veedu, Koduvila, in Kallada, she was a teacher at St. Stephens School under the church for the past 25 years.