Eighth grader 'kills herself'

An eighth grader of Bharateswari Homes allegedly killed herself in the school at Mirzapur upazila of Tangail yesterday afternoon.

Deceased Sumi Akter, 13, was the daughter of Shahid Shikder of Chiteshwari in the upazila.

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Police said dining hall staffers of the school saw Sumi hanging from a pipe of a toilet around 4:30pm and informed the teachers of the matter.

She was rushed to the Kumudini Hospital where doctors declared her dead, they said.

Mohammad Main Uddin, officer-in-charge of Mirzapur Police Station, said, "Her father met her on parents' day at the school on Friday and the girl had asked him to take her home and get her admitted to another school.”

Sumi had been a student at Bharateswari Homes since 2015. "Her classmates and seniors told me that she was depressed and used to become angry over little things," he said.

"Even though the incident seems like a suicide, we will send the body to Tangail General Hospital on Sunday for an autopsy," he said.