Hyderabad: Six students, including three girls, committed suicide within 24 hours after the declaration of results of the intermediate exam- equivalent to Classes 11 and 12-in Telangana on Tuesday.

Five of the deaths by suicide were reported from Hyderabad while the sixth was from Nizamabad.

A 17-year-old girl committed suicide at her house in Hyderabad's Vanasthalipuram, the police said.

At Raidurgam, a 16-year-old girl, also a first-year Intermediate student, died by suicide.

A second-year intermediate student died by suicide in Panjagutta.

Two boys, both second-year intermediate students, died by suicide in Neredmet and Saifabad on Tuesday.

A first-year intermediate student, who failed in the exam, died by suicide in Nizamabad's Armoor.

Telangana has had a history of student deaths by suicide after the declaration of intermediate exam results.