Anthropology department assistant professor Bokhtiar Ahmed said Partho might have committed suicide at around 5am on Saturday.
“The reason for suicide is not known yet. But I was informed by his classmates that he was mentally depressed,” he added.
His body was found hanging in his room and declared dead after being taken to the Patuakhali general hospital, according to the deceased’s classmates.
His dead body was kept in the morgue for an autopsy.
