Prime accused arrested
Police last night arrested Jahangir Alam, 25, the prime accused in the killing of a woman and her three daughters in Tangail.
He was held near his Dakkhin Sohagpara residence in Mirzapur upazila, said Mirzapur police.
Jahangir was being interrogated at the office of the Superintendent of Police in Tangail till filing of this report at 11:00pm.
On October 7, Hasna Begum, 35, and her three daughters Monira Akter, 14, Meem Akter, 10, and Molly Akter, 7, were burnt alive when miscreants set fire to their house at Dakkhin Sohagpara village in the upazila of Tangail.
The incident happened as Monira, the eldest daughter of Hasna, refused to marry Jahangir, 25, to whom she was engaged three years ago, relatives and neighbours said.
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