Three commit suicide in city

By Staff Correspondent
5 December 2006, 18:00 PM
Three people, including a domestic help, allegedly committed suicide in separate incidents in the city in the last two days.

All the three victims hanged themselves from ceiling fan, said police sources.

Arzin Akhter, 17, who has been working as a domestic help at one Golam Mustafa's house for the last two years at Uttara, was found dead at around 7:00pm on Monday.

The reason behind her death could not be known immediately.

Meanwhile, police recovered the body of a housewife named Asma Begum, 20, from Mirpur at around 8:00pm on Monday whom the family members claimed to be a mental patient.

Another body of one Fariduddin Mia, 29, of West Shewrapara was found at around 1:30am yesterday.

The bodies were sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy.