A 27-year-old housewife reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house at Baddanagar in Hazaribagh area of the capital early Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Sumaiya Akter Shumi, wife of Zubair Hossain Shohagh.
Quoting relatives, inspector Md Faruk, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital police camp, said family members found Shumi hanging from the ceiling of her house with a scarp around her neck around 5:30 am.
Later, she was taken to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where the doctors declared her dead around 7:50 am.
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However, the reason behind the suicide could not be known immediately.