2 schoolgirls commit 'suicide'
Two schoolgirls allegedly committed suicide in Atpara upazila on Friday midnight. The deceased are Lipi Akter, 14, daughter of Abdul Majid of Khila village and Beauty Aktar, 13, daughter of Ektu Mia of Narachatal village. Lipi was a class eight student at Khila High School while Beauty at class seven at the institution, said police. Of them, Lipi hanged herself with a rope from the ceiling of her house and Beauty took her live by hanging herself from a mango tree near their home. On information, police recovered the bodies and sent them to Netrakona Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. The reason behind the suicides could not be known immediately, said Salemuzzaman, officer in-charge at Atpara police station.
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