Dakshinkhan triple murder: Police find note ‘linking’ man to murder of wife, 2 children

Police today recovered a note which they suspect was written by the husband of the woman who was murdered, along with her two children, in the capital's Dakshinkhan area.

The woman's husband -- Raquib Uddin Bhuiyan -- had not been seen in the locality since Tuesday, locals and law enforcers said.

Police on Friday evening recovered the bodies of the three from their flat in a five-storey building. A hammer was recovered from near the woman's body.

Talking to this newspaper, Mashiur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB (north), said, "The note recovered by police suggested some possible hints that Raquib was facing some financial problems due to having taken a huge loan.

"We will look into whether there was any familial crisis due to the loan."

Police were yet to trace Raquib, an official of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL).

"We will see why a BTCL official such as him is burdened with a huge loan," the DB official said.

Police sources said the note suggested that Raquib killed the trio so that none would have to take their responsibility after his demise and it also added where Raquib could be found.

Meanwhile, after conducting autopsies on the victims, doctors confirmed that the woman, Munni Rahman, 37, was beaten to death with a hammer, while the two children -- Farhan Uddin, 12, and Layeeva Bhuiyan, 3 -- were strangled.

"The upper side of the three bodies were more decomposed. There were injury marks on the backside of the woman's head and her two children were strangled," Dr AKM Moinuddin, lecturer of the forensic medicine department of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, told reporters after conducting the autopsy around 4:00pm.

Doctor said they have collected viscera and blood samples from the three bodies for further reports.

ASM Hafizur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of Uttara Division, said he had learnt about the note recovered from the house and the matter is being investigated by Dakshinkhan Police.

"We are investigating the incident using all possible clues," he said.

The woman's brother Munna Rahman will file a murder case in this connection soon, police said.

The detective branch of police is also investigating the murder beside local police.

The family had been living in the flat since 2011. Raquib was recently transferred to the BTCL's Uttara office from Gulshan.

The deceased were buried at Banani graveyard today.