Police were looking for three sisters, two of them SSC examinees, on Friday, a day after they went missing from their house in the capital’s Adabar area. Sajia Nawrin, maternal aunt of the three girls, lodged a general diary (GD) with the Adabar police on Thursday afternoon. The missing sisters have been identified as Rokeya Ara, 18, who passed SSC last year and Jaynab Ara, 17, and Khadija Ara, 16, examinees of ongoing SSC exam. Read: Five missing as bulkhead ship sinks near Mongla port Investigation officer of the case Adabar Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Abdul Momin said that police went to the house at Shekertek Pisciculture road and checked the CCTV footage. It was seen that at around 11.04 am, first the younger sister, then the middle one and finally the eldest sister came out of the house carrying bags, police said. They said since the girls do not use mobile phones, it has been difficult to track them. But police are trying their best to locate them. Aunt Sajia said the girls have been living with her and another aunt since their mother died of cancer in 2003. She claimed that their father left their mother after she gave birth to three successive daughters. He married another woman and never looked after his daughters. Read: 4 Health Ministry employees suspended over missing of 17 files “Since my sister died, the three sisters have lived with me and my younger sister. They used to study from our houses in Adabar and Khilgaon,” Sajia said. She said, the eldest of three sisters passed SSC last year. And two younger sisters have been taking SSC exams this year. According to her, they have their next exams on November 22 but they left the house on Thursday morning without telling anyone. On that morning Sajia got back home to pick a file she forgot to take with her and found that the house was locked with the keys kept in a basket in front of the door. The girls have not been seen since then, she said. However, Sajia thought that some TikTok user might have persuaded them to leave the house. The girls, she said started to use TikTok when they were confined home during Covid-induced lockdowns. They took along with them their books, admit cards and registration cards, she added.

Two female students allegedly committed suicide in Magura and Thakurgaon districts on Sunday after failing the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations.   In Magura,  Airin, 16, a madrasa student and daughter of Jahid Hossain, resident of Parvatpara village of Mohammadpur upazila, reportedly hanged herself around 7pm after receiving her result.   Confirming the matter, Tarek Biswas, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station said that an unnatural death case was filed.   In Thakurgaon, Lima Akhter, 16, daughter of Jahirul Islam of Tinua village of Haripur upazila, committed suicide by hanging herself t at her room.   Victim’s father Jahirul Islam, said that after returning from field, he and her wife found Lima hanging at noon.   Later, she was taken to Haripur health complex where doctors declared her death, said Md Amiruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Haripur Police Station.

At least ten people, including SSC examinees, their guardians and teachers, were injured when a bus carrying them fell into a roadside ditch at Batulia on the Dhamrai-Balia regional road on Tuesday.

This year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations under 10 education boards will begin across the country on Monday.