KANPUR/LUCKNOW: A PhD student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, undergoing treatment at SGPGI, Lucknow for post-Covid complications, succumbed on Tuesday evening due to mucormycosis or black fungus. In Lucknow, four more black fungus patients died at KGMU on Wednesday. This is the first death of an IIT-Kanpur student due to black fungus infection. The student, Kavindra Kumar Chaturvedi, was enrolled in aerospace engineering department and succumbed to mucormycosis as post-Covid complication, IIT-Kanpur director Prof Abhay Karandikar wrote on FB.