Woman’s body found hanging at DMCH

The body of an unidentified woman, aged around 28, was found hanging in a bathroom at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Sunday morning.

Md Selim, sub-inspector (SI) of the DMCH police outpost, said the body was found around 10:30am in a bathroom between wards 110 and 111.

According to police and hospital sources, a cleaner discovered the woman hanging from a water pipe while cleaning the bathroom and informed the hospital authorities. They subsequently notified Shahbag Police Station.

SI Md Selim said police personnel went to the spot after being informed by the hospital outpost, but officials from Shahbag Police Station had yet to arrive.

The woman had a cut on one of her hands, which was bleeding, the police official said.
It was not immediately clear whether the woman had been killed or died by suicide, he added.