Student lay dead in New Zealand university dorm for two months

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The remains of the student were so badly decomposed that specialist disaster investigators were brought in to identify them.

A teenager lay dead in his campus dorm room for up to two months, a New Zealand university said Thursday, with the young man's body only discovered after fellow residents complained of the smell.

The undergraduate began his course in July -- the start of the academic year in New Zealand -- having opted to live on Canterbury University's leafy campus in Christchurch. "The thing that haunts me is how did we miss him?" CLV managing director John Schroder told reporters. "Despite the comprehensive pastoral care programmes in place, for us it is inconceivable to imagine how these circumstances could have occurred," she said in a statement.

 

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