A 21-year-old woman medical student was allegedly strangled to death by an unidentified person in a college hostel here in Maharashtra, police said.

The deceased, from Beed district, was found unconscious in her room by a warden of the hostel at the Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College on December 13, Deputy Commissioner of Police Rahul Khade said. She was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared her dead, he said.

The autopsy at the city-based Government Medical College and Hospital revealed that she died of strangulation, Khade said. A case under IPC section 302 (murder) was registered by the city police, he said. No arrest was made so far in this connection, police said, adding that a search was on for the culprit. The woman was pursuing a physiotherapy course at the college, police added.