Police early yesterday recovered the hanging body of a teenager from her room inside the office of a shelter home in the capital’s Mirpur area.
The victim is Khadija Khatun Sima, 15, a student of class VII. She was brought to the NGO named Association for Correction and Social Reclamation (ACSR) one and a half years back.
Both police and officials of the NGO suspected that she had committed suicide.
The body was recovered from a room on the fourth floor of the four-storey building in North Bishil area of Mirpur around 5am.
The NGO helps female victims in cooperation with the police’s Victim Support Centre in Tejgaon. Currently, 41 girls aged between 12 and 21 are staying at the centre.
ACSR Executive Officer Shahid Hasan told the Dhaka Tribune that the girl might have committed suicide sometime between around 1:30am and 3:30am. She came to the centre from Shishu Palli of Shyamoli.
He said that one of Sima’s room-mates had found her hanging from the ceiling fan around 4:15am and informed him about the matter.
Mirpur police station’s Sub-Inspector Matiur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune that they had sent the body to Dhaka Medical College morgue for a post-mortem examination. He added that they had not found any signs of torture or injuries on the victim’s body.
