Stalked schoolgirl commits suicide in Pirojpur

PIROJPUR, Aug 31 (UNB): A schoolgirl 'committed suicide' by taking sleeping pills allegedly after being stalked by a youth in Bhandaria Upazila headquarters here early Saturday.

The deceased was identified as Ruksana Rupa, 16, a 10th grader of Bhandaria Sadar Girls' High School and daughter of Ruhul Amin of the upazila.

Quoting Ruksana's father, SM Maksudur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Bhandaria Police Station, said a local youth named Tamim showed the girl a photoshopped photo of her with her face onto image of a naked body in his mobile phone on her way home from private tuition in the afternoon.

Ruksana informed her parents about it and later took some sleeping pills on Friday night.