Mother, daughter brutally killed
A woman and her nine-year-old daughter were found murdered at their rented house in Sadarghat of Chittagong city yesterday morning.
The deceased were Nasima Akther, 40, a housewife, and Ria Akther, a class-four student at East Madarbari Girls School.
Nasima's husband Shah Alam, a butcher, claimed that robbers slit the victims' throats as they had recognised the criminals.
Apart from the three, Nasima's two school-going sons, Riad Hossain and Hridoy Hossain, her brother Alal Hossain and father-in-law Rashid Mia used to live on the third-floor of a six-storey building in Nalapara area.
Of them, only the victims were at the house during the incident, said neighbours.
Jamila Begum, their maid, was the first person to discover the bodies.
“Like every day, I came to this house around 10:00am but saw that the main door was slightly open. Later, I found the bodies lying in a pool of blood,” she told this correspondent.
She rushed to Alam's shop, which is in the same area, and informed him about the matter.
Police went to the house around 10:30am and sent the bodies to Chittagong Medical College morgue for autopsies.
Alam claimed that around five tolas of gold and Tk 1.3 were missing from their almirah. Its door was open.
“The robbers killed my wife and daughter perhaps because they had recognised their faces,” he said.
But, he could not name any suspect.
“I had talked to my wife around 9:00am for the last time. She had told me to take the boys to school. I had no idea that the hell would break loose this way,” Alam said and burst into tears.
Mobasher Hossain Mia, owner of the house, said several unknown people used to visit the house frequently.
“Whenever I asked, they said the people were either Alam's friends or workers at his shop,” he said.
He suspected that any of those “visitors” had killed the two.
Police said they would comment on the motive behind the murders only after investigation.
“Our separate teams are working,” said Assistant Commissioner Abdur Rouf of Kotwali Circle of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.
CID Inspector Mitusree Barua said they had found a knife, believed to the murder weapon, from the house.
A case was filed with Sadarghat Police Station.
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