Teenage girl allegedly commits suicide

Staff Correspondent
Police yesterday recovered the body of a teenage girl from her Pallabi residence in the city yesterday morning. The deceased was identified as Tania Akter, 16, daughter of Abbas Uddin of Kotali Para in Go-palganj. Police said she committed suicide but could not confirm the cause. Sub-Inspector (SI) of Pallabi Police Station Mehedi Hasan told The Daily Star that they recovered the body from the sixth floor of the six-storey building. Residents of the house said she hung herself with a scarf from the grill of a window, he added.