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JU student found hanging at home near campus

News Desk Metro 2023-09-02, 1:34pm

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A female student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was found hanging in her rented house at Ambagan area, adjacent to the university, on Friday night.



A female student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was found hanging in her rented house at Ambagan area, adjacent to the university, on Friday night.

The deceased was identified as Kazi Samita Ashka alias Neha, hailed from Sadar upazila of Satkhira district. She was a 4th year student of the Department of History (48th batch) in the university.

According to the deceased's roommates, on Friday night, Ashka's friend Shahriar Jaman Turjo called them to go to their rented house and said Ashka might have committed suicide.

Nafis Iqbal, Ashka’s friend, said getting no response from her for a long time, he along with his friends went to her house and found the door locked from inside around 9 pm last night.

Later, they break into her room and found her hanging from the ceiling.

They took her to the university medical centre but the doctors referred her to Savar Enam Medical College Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared her dead.

Savar Model Police Station sub-inspector Al Mamun Kabir said it was assuming that she might have committed suicide but the actual reason behind the death would be known after autopsy.