KOLLAM: The body of a 55-year-old

of

was found at Mount Tabor Dayara and Convent at

on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Sister Susan Mathew, a teacher with the St Stephen school, Pathanapuram.

The dead body was found inside convent well when the employees there traced blood stains nearby, around 9 am. Police and fire force reached the spot. The locals demanded the presence of RDO before the is fished out from the well.

Pathanapuram Police is recording the statements of other nuns and staff in the convent. Sister Susan Mathew, a native of Kallada in

, was a teacher at St Stephens School Pathanapuram for the last 25 years.

According to some of the inmates of the convent, Sr. Susan was on leave for the last one week. They said the sister was suffering from some disease and was undergoing treatment at a hospital at

, Mannar. On Saturday, she had visited the hospital and returned only by evening.

Eye witnesses said the nun’s room had blood stains and there were marks of blood near the well also. The nun’s hair also had been chopped off and parts of which were found in her room. While some of the inmates hinted it to be a case of suicide in frustration out of the disease she was suffering from, the police officials here have not taken the versions of the inmates seriously. It was the police officials who insisted on the presence of revenue officials not below the rank of a RDO during the fishing out of the body from the well.