The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Chittagong

An under-trial prisoner allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of a bathroom at district jail early yesterday.

Jail sources said Jahangir Alam, 27, son of Ashraf Ali of Karaiya village in Satkania upazila was arrested on July 12 on charge of killing his wife.

Jahangir woke up during the Sehri and hanged himself in the bathroom

by using a towel, the sources said.

Jail guards later recovered the body by breaking the door of the bathroom and sent it to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for autopsy.