A 15-year-old girl residing at Jayabada on the outskirts of Jagatsinghpur town committed suicide in her house due to a family row on Saturday.
The girl was preparing for the HSC examination scheduled to start from February 19. Police seized her body and sent it for postmortem after registering an unnatural death case at the Jagatsinghpur police station. With this, as many as three teenage girls have committed suicide in Jagatsinghpur in past two weeks. And all of them were to appear at this year’s HSC examination.
A minority community girl of Chatara village had ended her life on January 31 in her house. She was reading in the Government Girls’ High School here.
In the third suicide incident, a girl ailing from Balikuda who was also appear at HSC examination committed suicide due to a family dispute on February 11.
