GAIGHAT: A teenager died by suicide in a quarantine centre in Udayapur district on Thursday night.

Police identified the deceased as Suman BK (18) of Guranse in Rautamai Rural Municipality-7 in the district.

According to Udayapur District Police Office (DPO), the teenager and his wife had been staying separately in the quarantine centre located in Rajabas near his home village since April 23. The couple had arrived in the quarantine from Kathmandu, police informed.

Chairman of the rural municipality's ward no. 7,  Gajendra Khadka said that the teenager was found hanging in the room of the facility.

Meanwhile, body of the deceased has been sent to the District Hospital for the postmortem, Superintendent of Police (SP) Bir Bahadur Budhamagar informed.