Pirojpur, Sept. 29 -- Police recovered the hanging body of a schoolgirl from her house in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Mahira Akter, a Class-X student of Bhandaria Thana Girls' Secondary School and daughter of Md Alamgir Hossain, a retired librarian of the Department of Soil, Water and Environment at Dhaka University, of Madhya Chinguria village. Alamgir is currently engaged in business in Dhaka.

According to police and locals, Mahira's mother died when she was three years old, after which her father remarried. Mahira subsequently lived with her stepmother.

Locals alleged that Mahira had faced neglect and mental abuse by her stepmother, which they suspected led her to take her own life.

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