A college girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her North Shahjahanpur residence in the city yesterday.
The girl’s family members said she committed suicide as she had been suffering from asthma for long.
The dead was identified as Sadia Bintey Nur, 17, a first year student at National Ideal School and College.
Neighbours told reporters that Sadia’s father Nur Ahmed, an official of Bangladesh Bank, knocked on her bedroom door after returning home completing his prayers at a nearby mosque early in the morning.
They broke open the door as Sadia did not respond and found her hanging from a ceiling fan, said a next-door neighbour seeking anonymity.
They rushed her to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared her dead, said the neighbours.
During a visit to the house, the flat of the deceased on the first floor of a six-storey building was found locked from outside while the neighbours said the body was taken to Jamalpur for burial from the hospital.
Dhaka Medical College Morgue sources said autopsy of the body was not done.
Officer-in-charge (OC) Toffazol Hossain of Motijheel Police Station said victim’s father Nur Ahmed filed an unnatural death case with the police station.
He mentioned in the case statement that his daughter had been suffering from asthma for long and recently the condition deteriorated leading her to commit suicide.
