Female prisoner ‘commits suicide’ in Magura jail

A female prisoner reportedly hanged herself in Magura district jail on Wednesday, reports UNB.

The deceased Begum Sathi, 40, charged with killing her three-year-old daughter on 8 March.

Tayef Uddin, superintendent of Magura jail, said Sathi had been suffering from mental illness and underwent treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital until 2 May.

As she tried to hang herself with a scurf in a cell at about 1:30pm, Sathi was taken to sadar hospital where she was declared dead, the jail super said.