2 brothers confess to killing two sisters

Two accused in a case for killing two sisters on Wednesday gave confessional statement before a court here.

The accused are Wares, 50, and his elder brother Tansen, 60. They are sons of late Ramzan Mondol of Baluata in Sadar upazila of the district.

Police produced the accused before the Court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Niskriti Hagidak on Wednesday afternoon where Wares and Tansen gave statement under Section 164 that they first strangled Bhabna,14, and her sister Lubna, 9, at Dewliabari village in the upazila.

The duo later slit their throats with a scissor at the victims' house at midnight, said Delwar Hossain, superintendent of police, at a press conference yesterday.

They also revealed that they killed the two sisters over a longstanding land dispute with their parents-- Malaysia expatriate Shamim Hossain and Taslima Begum of Dewliabari village. The two accused are paternal uncles of Shamim.

   Bhabna, Class IX student of a local girls' high school, and Lubna, a fourth grader of a local kindergarten, were found murdered inside their house on August 2.

After recording the statement, the court sent the two brothers to jail.