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Police on Sunday recovered the hanging body of a Jagannath University female student from a rented hostel at Tanuganj Lane in Old Dhaka.

The deceased is Sabrina Rahman Shammi, a student of the sociology department under the 2021-22 academic session at the JnU.


Hailed from Narayanpur village under Chaugacha upazila in Jashore, Sabrina was residing at a rented female hostel at Tanuganj Lane.

Sutrapur police station officer-in-charge Saiful Islam said, ‘Sabrina was residing at a hostel at Tanuganj Lane. She stayed in a room alone … We recovered the body hanging from the ceiling of the room at around 4:30am.’

He also said that police recovered a suicide note from the hostel.

‘The body has been sent to Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital for autopsy,’ added the OC.

JnU proctor Tazammol Hoque said that the cause of the death would be known after the autopsy.

‘The body will be taken to her hometown in Jashore,’ the proctor added.