Cop 'commits' suicide

Our Correspondent, Rangpur
A police constable committed 'suicide' by shooting himself with his own pistol in Rangpur on Saturday evening. The dead, Ayub Ali, 35, was a bodyguard of SM Rashidul Haque, additional superintended of police in Rangpur. Hearing the sound of a gunshot at around 7:00pm, one of his colleagues rushed to the guards' room and found Ayub Ali lying in a pool of blood on the floor. Police recovered the body and sent it to Rangpur Medical College hospital for autopsy. A four-member committee, led by Senior ASP Abul Bashar Mohammad Zakir Hossain, was formed to investigate the incident. The other members of the committee are Taharul Islam, ASP of Rangpur, Altaf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Rangpur Kotwali Police Station and Golam Mahfizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of the Detective Branch in Rangpur.