Woman found murdered in city

A woman was found murdered inside her flat in the capital's Darussalam yesterday.

Police recovered the slit-throat body of Marium Begum, 50, a housekeeper at Dhaka Nursing College, from the fifth floor of an eleven-storey building in Tolarbagh area around 7:00pm, Selimuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Darussalam Police Station, told The Daily Star.

Marium's hands and legs were tied with rope. It appeared that more than one person was involved in her killing, police said.

The motive for the murder was not clear immediately.

Police recovered two knives from the washroom of the flat, the OC said, adding that Marium's cell phone was missing.

The crime scene unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) collected evidence from the scene.

Marium's husband Abdul Hannan, an accountant of Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery, found the main gate of the flat open when he returned from work around 6:30pm.

Khokon Hawlader, security guard who along with his family lives on the ground floor of the under-construction building, told The Daily Star that the victim had returned from her work around 3:00pm.

Asked, he claimed that he noticed no one moving suspiciously in or around the building, which had no CCTV cameras.

Rezaul Karim, brother of the victim from Tangail, said apart from the cell phone, nothing seemed to be missing from the flat owned by Marium and Hannan.

The couple has two children -- Mujahid, 24, and Dia, 21. They are students of a private medical College in the capital's Moghbazar. They were not home during the time of the incident.

OC Selimuzzaman said they were trying to find out whether the killing was carried out over any personal conflict or it was just an incident of robbery-related murder.