Schoolgirl, worker 'commit suicide'
A schoolgirl and a garment worker allegedly committed suicide in two separate incidents in the capital's Shahjahanpur and Boro Moghbazar yesterday.
The girl, Sadia Akhter Safa, 14, a class X student of Louhajang in Munshiganj, had come to her aunt's residence in Moghbazar with her mother a few days back to see a doctor, said police.
Yesterday, some relatives scolded her for getting into a relationship with a local boy over phone, after which she went to the bathroom for a shower around 2:30pm, said the aunt, Najnin Nahar.
Hearing no response from inside for some time, the relatives broke in and found Safa lying on the floor with a scarf tied around her neck, she said.
They rushed Safa to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared her dead.
Meanwhile, the deceased garment worker, Ridoy Khan, 24, was an employee of Nadira Garments Limited at Moghbazar, said police.
After returning home at Boro Mogbazar around 11:30pm on Wednesday, he had an altercation with his wife for coming home late, said police quoting the wife, Beauty Begum.
They went to sleep and Beauty woke up around 1:30am to find Ridoy hanging by the neck with a scarf tied to a ceiling fan, added police.
Police also detained Beauty for interrogation.
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