Teenage domestic worker’s body found in Ramu

Police recovered the hanging body of a teenage domestic
worker in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar today (13 April).
The incident took place in the
Sridhan Para area of Fatekharkul union. The deceased was Maya Tanchangya, 15,
from the Hwaikyong area of Teknaf.
The body was sent to Cox's Bazar
District Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy, said Ramu Police Station
Officer-in-Charge Monirul Islam Bhuiyan.
According to police, locals found Maya hanging from a ceiling fan with a scarf
in the kitchen on the second floor of a three-storey house owned by one Sadhan
Barua.
A police team went to the scene
after being informed, broke open the door and recovered the body.
Preliminary information suggests
that Maya had been working in the house as a domestic worker for around three years.
On the day of the incident, she reportedly had an argument with the house
owner's wife at noon.
Police suspect she may have taken
her own life following the dispute. The exact cause of death will be known
after the autopsy report, they said.
Legal procedures are underway, said the OC.















