California student dies on hiking trip with fraternity: reports

(Reuters) – A California university fraternity has been ordered to stop all activities after a student died on hiking trip with group members in the Angeles National Forest, the university said, according to local media. A 19-year-old California State University-Northridge student died on Tuesday after running out of water and passing out, local media quoted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as saying. The university was investigating the incident involving the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, which it had ordered to “cease and desist” all activities, school spokeswoman Carmen Ramos Chandler said, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper. The university and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.