Police recovered the body of a security guard from the roof of Bank Asia Bhaban in the capital’s Paltan area yesterday morning.
The deceased, Md Rezaul Karim, 25, son of Md Abul Hossain from Noakhali, is suspected to have committed suicide, police said.
Kamal Uddin, security in-charge of the building, said Rezaul was supposed to start his shift at 6am yesterday, but when he did not report for duty, his colleagues started looking for him and found his body hanging from a steel bar of a mobile network tower installed at the roof of the building.
Seeing his body, they informed police, who arrived at the spot around 7am. They sent the body at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for an autopsy around 12:30pm, he said.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, Sub-Inspector Mominul Islam of Paltan police station said Rezaul might have killed himself over heartbreak.
Rezaul’s colleagues told police that he was involved in a relationship with a girl who recently got married to someone else.
The break-up may have driven him towards death, but whether it was a suicide or a murder will be confirmed after the autopsy is done, the sub-inspector said.
No case was filed with police in this connection yesterday.