Two women 'commit suicide' in capital
Two women allegedly committed suicide in two separate incidents in the capital's Agargaon and Wari areas yesterday.
At Agargaon, Salma Begum, wife of Mohammad Rajib, 25, a rickshaw garage manager, allegedly committed suicide by taking poison following a family feud yesterday.
Police detained Rajib in this connection.
Rajib told The Daily Star that he and his parents made a quarrel with Salma on Monday night as she gave Tk 3,000 to her father without his concern.
He said after the quarrel he went to his garage and returned early hours of yesterday.
After another altercation, Salma drank something poisonous and started vomiting, he added.
She was rushed to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital. Later, she was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared her dead around 11:30am.
In another incident, Samia Azmi, 26, allegedly committed suicide by hanging her with scurf from a ceiling fan in her bedroom at Wari yesterday.
Mohammad Shakil, father of the deceased, said Samia's was mentally disordered since she was divorced by her husband, Md Shahjahan, four years back.
“She and her six-year-old son Jisan have been living with me after the divorce. I don't know the reason behind her suicide. We were sleeping in two separate rooms that night,” he added.
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