‘Murder-Suicide’: Police find 3 of a family dead in city’s Mirpur

Police recovered the bodies of a man, his wife and son from a flat in the capital’s Mirpur yesterday.

The victims are SM Bayezid, 45, a businessman, his wife Kohinur Akter Anjana, 42, and son Farhan, 16, a student of Dhaka Commerce College.

Police suspect that Bayezid died by suicide after killing his wife and only child.

A victims’ relatives called police as he did not get any response from the flat of Bayezid when he went to visit them around 1:30pm, said Selimuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Kafrul Police Station.

“Three to four men whom Bayezid owed money to came and asked me about his whereabouts. They forcibly went upstairs and knocked at the door of Bayezid’s flat. But getting no response, they left,” said Abdul Jalil, caretaker of the storey-building.

Soon after, another man, identifying himself as Bayezid’s friend who received a text from Bayezid’s mobile early yesterday, came, said Jalil.

That man also rang the doorbell and knocked at the door but got no response. Later, he informed Bayezid’s relatives of the matter. They came, unlocked the flat, on the second floor of the building, with a spare key and found the bodies.

“Bayezid was in debt. He was forced to shut down his loss-incurring knitting factory,” Murad Hossain, brother-in-law of Bayezid, told The Daily Star.

Police went to the flat in Mirpur-13 and found Bayezid’s body hanging from the ceiling. The bodies of his wife and son were on the bed, the OC said.

Some empty packets of Biriyani were found in the room, the police official said, adding that Bayezid might have fed his wife and son poisoned food before killing himself.

There were writings on the wall of the room that read “no one is responsible for my death”, police said.