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Man held over killing 2 sons

Police claim he confessed to killing

Police yesterday arrested the father who they say has admitted to killing his two young sons as an act of reprisal against his wife.

The arrestee, Satir Ali, 40, had been absconding since Monday night when bodies of his two children -- Rujel Ahmed, 7, and Abdul Momin, 11 -- were found beside a ditch in their village home Chintamoni in Osmani Nagar upazila after he took them out for fishing.

Mohammad Moniruzzaman, superintendent of police in Sylhet, at a press briefing yesterday said Satir has admitted to have committed the murders. Police arrested him earlier in the morning from Kali Mandir in the village.

Satir told the police that he had a longstanding tumultuous relationship with his wife, Nurbi Begum, and he had decided to kill her as well as the two sons they had together, said the SP.

As part of his plan, Satir took his sons out on a fishing trip on Monday afternoon and used sharp weapons to kill them one by one beside a ditch adjoining Chonditior haor (wetland), Moniruzzaman said, adding that there were four gashes in Momin's body and six in Rujel's.

The arrestee will be produced before the court today after filing of the case, said police.

On Monday evening, family members of the children -- both students of Chintamoni Government Primary School in the upazila -- started looking for them as their father did not return home with them after the sunset. They informed the police after finding the dead children, with stab wounds and bruises all over their bodies, beside the ditch.

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