UNB, Jhenidah :
Two college girls committed suicide in separate places after failing in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations in Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Nandita Das, 17, daughter of Montu Das of Bejpara village and Lia Akhtar, 17, daughter of Abdul Malek of Jhanjhania village of the upazila.
Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Police Station, said Nandita committed suicide by hanging herself with her scarf at home as she heard the news of her failure in the HSC examinations after its results were published the same day.
Meanwhile, Lia fell seriously sick after consuming pesticide as she came to know about her failure in the examinations in the same evening.
