The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Savar

A female student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Pritilata Hall Wednesday morning.

The dead was identified as Roksana Akhter Soma, 20, a second year student of the geography and environment science department and hailed from Pabna district.

Police said one of Soma's friends found her hanging from ceiling the fan in her room at about 11am and informed the hall authorities. Later, on information police recovered the body and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. The reason behind the suicide could not be immediately known.