Youth commits 'suicide'

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
A young man allegedly committed suicide by going under the wheels of a running train near Rajshahi University mass grave yesterday. Deceased Mohammad Rafi, 20, son of Abdul Majid of Mirjapur area in the city lied down on the rail track at around 12.30pm. The Rajshahi-bound train Uttara Express ran over him severing his body into two parts, said railway police. Sub inspector Khorshed Alam of Rajshahi GRP who visited the scene and recorded statement of witnesses told this correspondent that Rafi used to work at a rural barbar shop.