A SSC examinee died after he allegedly off a six-storied building in Rangpur hours before he was to sit for this year's exam that began Sunday. The deceased was identified as Wasif Rayhan,17, a student of Rangpur Zila School and son of Abu Taher Md Masud, additional district commissioner of Rangpur. Read: School girl ‘kills self’ jumping off high-rise building in Dhaka Wasif jumped from the roof top of the building at Keranipara around 7 am, said Officer-in-Charge of Rangpur metropolitan Kotwali police station Hossain Ali quoting the family. As no complaint was filed in this regard the body was handed over without any autopsy. The reason behind the suicide could not be known yet, he said.

Police recovered the hanging body of a student of Begum Rokeya University Rangpur (BRUR) from his house on Thursday, pólice said suspecting it a case of suicide. Tanvir Alam Tushar, a Masters final year student of the university's Economics Department, was found dead around 3 pm at his home at Shahebganj área in the Rangpur city. On Tuesday at 2 am Tushar posted a status on social media that said, “I quit for forever.” Also read: 4 girls attempt suicide at Social Services Dept-run rehab centre Tushar’s family informed pólice after finding his hanging body in his room, said officer-in-charge of Haragach pólice station, Shawkat Ali Sarkar. "Primarily we are suspecting that during the Covid lockdown Tushar got involved in gambling through his mobile. Mental stress due to his loans might have led him to kill himself,`` said the OC quoting his family. Meanwhile Tushar’s family members refused to comment on this matter. Also read: Woman poisons daughter, commits suicide in Jashore According to their neighbours, recently Tushar had an argument with his father and family members. OC Shawkat said the body has been sent for an autopsy and investigation is on to find out the actual reason of the death. Assistant professor of BRUR Economics Department Belal Uddin said this news is hard to accept as Tuhin was a brilliant student with cheerful personality.