A nine-year-old boy breathed his last after accidentally strangling himself with a rope in the capital's Jurain on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Arafat Islam Arzu, son of Azizul Haque, a trader of Siabnia village in Mongla upazila of Bogra district. Arzu was a second grader at a local school. He lived with his family on the fourth floor of a four-storey building next to Muradpur High School in Jurain. The incident took place on Saturday noon when the boy strangled himself while playing with a rope in the balcony of the house.   He was rushed to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctor on duty declared him dead at around 2 pm, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police outpost. Read: Child killed in Cox’s Bazar landslide