Two lovers use single rope to commit suicide

Two lovers committed suicide by hanging themselves from a tree using a single rope  beside Dighulia canal at Avoynagar upazila in Jessore on Tuesday as their love affair went awry.

The deceased were Lipa Bishwas, 14, daughter of Gobinda Bishwas of Joyrabad village in Siddipasha union and Saikat Sen, 20, son of Sushanto Sen of the same village.

Local people found the hanging bodies of Lipa, a class-VII student at Joyrabad Sommeloni High School and Saikat who had failed in the last year's SSC exam from same school and informed the police.

Based on information, police recovered two bodies and sent the bodies to Jessore General Hospital for autopsy.

UNB said quoting Sheikh Goni Miah, Officer-in-Charge of Avoynagar Police Station, that the duo might have committed suicide as police found a suicide note.