A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide at Jatrabari in the city yesterday evening.
The deceased Mili Akhter, 15, is a student of class nine of Jatrabari Ideal School and College.
Mili’s father Anwar Hossain said he found his daughter hanging with a scarf from the ceiling of her room at his Uttar Jatrabari residence at around 6:00pm yesterday.
Family members broke into the room and rushed her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared her dead.