'Missing' woman, grandson found dead at home

A “missing” woman and her nine-year-old grandson were found dead inside a locked room of a rented house in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj where she lived with her son-in-law and grandchildren.  

The woman, Parvin Akhtar, 50, wife of late Abdur Rahim from Comilla, used to look after her grand daughter and grandson, Mehedi Hasan, as her daughter Shilpi Akhtar is an expatriate worker in the UAE.

Her son-in-law Nabi Awal, who lived with them at the rented house in Painadi Modhyapara are of Siddhirganj, on Wednesday (January 3) filed a general diary (GD) with Siddhirganj Police Station, claiming that his mother-in-law and son had gone missing since the morning of December 30, said Nasir Uddin, sub-inspector of the police station.

Yesterday morning based on complaints from locals regarding foul odour emitting from a room in the house, police discovered the decomposing corpses after breaking open the door of the room around 11:00am, he added.  

Police have detained Nabi Awal for interrogation and sent the corpses to Narayanganj General Hospital for autopsy, said Additional Police Super (ASP) of Narayanganj Mohammad Sharfuddin.

Both the woman and the child might have been killed before their bodies were locked inside the room.

The causes of their death would be found after the autopsies, he also said.