Online Desk: A police constable ‘committed suicide’ after he allegedly shot himself in the chest with his gun in the city’s Banani area on Thursday while he was on-duty. The incident happened around 6:49am at Banani Police check-post.

Deceased Ashrafuzzaman Rony, 22, worked at ASTF of Public Order Management (POM). He used to live in Mirpur Police Lines. OC Md Mostafizur Rahman said, Rony was on-duty at Banani check-post on Road no 11. He went to a washroom beside the checkpost and the sound of a gunshot was heard from inside.

Hearing the gunshot, his colleagues rushed in and took him to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared him dead.

Rony’s colleagues suspect that he might have killed himself. Rony from Dhamrai upazila in Dhaka joined the police force in 2020.