School staff member kills self on campus

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A 36-year-old school staff committed suicide on the campus of a school on Thursday, Uttar Pradesh Police informed.

Svetabh Pandey, the probe official said in a statement to the media, that the woman was a cleaning staff in the school. "She committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree inside the school premises. We had also called the forensic team for conducting an investigation," he added.

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No suicide note was recovered by the police from the incident spot. Although the police see this case of suicide, the deceased's family has alleged that she was murdered. "She was very happy when she left home in the morning. I think somebody has killed her. I was informed by the school authorities at around 6:30 pm. She was working here from the past four months. I saw that her body was hanging from a tree," said Rakesh Srivastava, husband of the deceased told ANI.

With inputs from ANI

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