BIHARSHARIF: An elderly person allegedly committed suicide inside a mosque here by slitting his neck early Sunday morning.
According to police sources, construction workers on Sunday morning spotted the 75-year-old Matiur Rahman lying in a pool of blood with his neck slit on the first floor of a mosque under construction at Imadpur under Biharsharif Town police station area.
The local residents rushed the victim to Biharsharif Sadar hospital after the workers raised alarm. However, the doctors declared him ‘brought dead’.
Investigation officer (IO) of the case, Khurshid Alam, said Anis Athar, the son-in-law of the deceased, said his father-in-law had been suffering from acute depression for quite sometime. He said the deceased went to the mosque around 5.30am. It appeared that after the morning prayers, he went to the first floor of the mosque under construction and committed suicide.
The IO, who was present at Biharsharif Sadar hospital during postmortem, said the police recovered a bloodstained sharp kitchen knife from the place of occurrence.