Nine of a family commit 'suicide'
Our Correspondent, Mymensingh
Nine members of a family, including three children, allegedly committed suicide by jumping under a train at Kashore near the outer signal of Mymensingh Railway Station yesterday. The dead were identified as Hena Begum, 60, wife of late Anwar Hossain, their daughters Mobi, 40, Aktari Begum, 35, Murshida, 30, and Shabnam, 10, sons Arif, 26,and Rahat, 18, and Mobi's son Mollah, 8 and daughter Mariam, 10. The reason for committing the mass suicide could not be known as of filing of this report at 8:00pm yesterday. Police said all the nine family members of late Anwar Hossain, who converted to Christianity, jumped in front of a Mymensingh-bound running train from Jagannathganj Ghat at around 3:15pm, according to UNB. Local sources said the elderly family members tied up the younger ones with clothes and then, altogether, jumped under the train. Local people described the incident as a "preplanned suicide" as a grave was dug on the premises of their house and a coffin was also kept there. They said the family had confined themselves to their house and led an isolated life. Police cordoned off the house, 10 yards from the place of occurrence. They sent the bodies to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital for autopsies.
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