A Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawan "committed suicide" at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital early yesterday. With this incident the number of unnatural death of BDR jawans after February 25-26 BDR mutiny stands at seven.
The deceased was Mohammad Nomanul Hossain, 30, a signalman of BDR Kaptai camp. He was undergoing treatment for blood cancer at the hospital since January 21 last.
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Officer-in-charge (OC) of Shahbagh Police Station Rezaul Karim said Nomanul Hossain committed suicide by hanging himself from ceiling using a gamchha [cotton towel] at a second floor washroom of the hospital around 6:30am.
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On information, police recovered the body from the hospital and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue, OC Rezaul said, adding that after autopsy, the deceased's relatives would take the body to his village at Daulatkhan upazila of Bhola. |