Belagavi: Gloom descended on Tilakwadi locality following a shocking suicide by a 19-year-old girl on a railway track near the first railway gate under Tilakwadi Police limits on Friday.

The deceased, identified as Sanjana Chandrakant Angolkar, a resident of Tilakwadi, committed suicide in a strange way. She first doused herself with liquid fuel, set herself ablaze and then jumped in front of a train, and died on the spot, the police said.

She was identified with the help of text/notebooks found in a handbag lying near the body. She was a first year student of a Belagavi-based private polytechnic college.

The Hubballi-Miraj Passenger was approaching the Belagavi Railway Station when the incident happened, the police said

The body was shifted to the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital.

Meanwhile, the police recovered a note from her bag where she has stated that she was upset with serious health issues prompting her to end her life.