UNB, Dinajpur :
A couple reportedly committed suicide by hanging themselves with a single rope at Sakoir village in Biral upazila on Thursday.
Rakib Babu, 16, son of late Abul Hossain of Sakoir village ,and Purnima Rani Paul, 15, daughter of late Haripad Paul of Kirshnapur village, had been in a relationship for three years, locals said.
As Babu and Purnima, students of class X and XI respectively of Raghupur Dimukhi High School, belonged to different religions, their family members didn’t accept the relationship and warned the duo several times, said officer-in-charge of Biral Police Station Imtiaz Hossain.
On Wednesday afternoon, they disappeared abruptly.
Later, locals spotted their bodies of hanging from a mango tree in the woods near Sakoir and informed police.
Police recovered the bodies around 12 pm and sent those to Dinajpur M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital for autopsy.
