A youth committed suicide yesterday reportedly after failing to achieve a GPA 5 score in his Secondary School Certificate examinations.
Mohammad Sowrov, 17, was found hanging with the ceiling fan by a rope in the neck at his residence at Karnaphuli Bhaban in Chittagong city’s Golpahar area.
Sowrov appeared for the SSC examination from Al Hera Academy at Bera in Pabna, while living with his grandparents.
“He was expecting a GPA 5, however, he found out that he had scored GPA 4.30,” said Md Shahnewaz, a next door neighbor.
“After finding the result, he came and informed me of his result and took a long breathe and went back to his house,” he added.
The victim’s mother, Firoza Begum, a senior staff nurse at Chittagong Medical College Hospital, said Sowrov got to know his SSC results at around 2:00pm when she and her husband, Sakhawat Hossain, a businessman, were at their workplaces.
At around 3:00pm, the victim’s mother returned home and found that Sawrov had committed suicide.
“Hearing her screams, I went to their house and she and I rushed Sowrov to CMCH,” Shahnewaz added.
“On-duty doctors at CMCH pronounced the boy dead at around 3:55pm,” said Nayek Jahangir Alam of CMCH Police Outpost.
The dead body was sent to CMCH morgue for autopsy, he said and added that the victim might have committed suicide after becoming mentally depressed over his expected result.