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Published : 28 Aug 2024, 12:44 PM
The body of 32-year-old Rahanuma Sarah, who worked as the newsroom editor at private television channel GTV, has been recovered from Hatirjheel Lake on Tuesday.
Sarah jumped into the lake, her husband said, citing witnesses. "It's better to die than being a member of the living dead," she had previously written on her Facebook page.
She was suffering from clinical depression, her family and friends said.
Some people rescued Sarah and took her to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital in an unconscious state around 1:45am on Wednesday. The doctor on duty at the emergency department performed the necessary tests and declared her dead.
Assistant Sub Inspector Md Masud Mia of the DMCH Police Outpost confirmed the information and said her body was kept at the DMCH morgue.
Sarah was the daughter of Bakhtiari Shikdar and a native of Islambagh Krishnapur village in Noakhali's Sonaimuri. Her husband is Sayed Shuvro. She lived with her husband at a rented house in Dhaka's Kalyanpur.
Following a romantic relationship, they tied the knot seven years ago without informing their families, said Shuvro. On Tuesday, Sarah went to the office and did not return home that night. Instead, she sent some money for house rent with another person around 10:30pm.
"I called her and said, 'You are coming home tonight anyway, so why did you send the money with someone else?'. She told me she was busy and cut the call. Later, around 3am, I heard that she jumped into the lake," said Shuvro.
Shuvro said he found his wife dead when he reached the hospital.
"We didn't fight, but for the past few days, my wife has been asking for a divorce. We decided to go to the Kazi Office and file for a divorce. But under the current circumstances in the country, we couldn't make it to the Kazi Office."
Sarah was suffering from clinical depression, her friends said after the incident. She was also receiving treatment for the condition.
