DU student ‘kills self’ jumping off city building

PBC News: A female student of Dhaka University (DU) committed suicide by jumping off the roof of a 16-storey building of her apartment in the capital’s Mohammadpur area on Wednesday.

Deceased Zaina Habib, a second-year student of the Department of Accounting Information Systems, lived with her family on the first floor of Japan Garden City.

After examining CCTV footage of the roof police found that Zaina had committed suicide, said Mujib Ahmed Patwari, assistant commissioner of Mohammadpur Zone Police.

Zaina went to the top of their apartment building and locked its door around 5pm when it was raining.

Later, she jumped off the roof, leaving a suicide note there. She died on the spot.

“Police handed over the body to Zaina’s family instead of taking it away for a postmortem as they did not make any complaint about the death,” Mujib Ahmed said.