Man takes own life after killing wife

A man committed suicide after stabbing his wife to death over family feud in Shafipur area in Kaliakoir upazila of the district on Saturday night.

The deceased are Raihan Ali, 38, a rickshaw puller, and his wife Halima Begum, 30, a worker of a local RMG factory.

Quoting locals, police said the couple, who lived in a rented house in the area, often quarrelled over family matters.

Raihan stabbed Halima indiscriminately with a kitchen knife while she was returning from her workplace around 10:30pm, Sub-inspector Saiful Alam of Mouchak police outpost said.

Hearing screams, as locals rushed in to save Halima, Raihan stabbed himself in the abdomen with the knife. Locals rushed them to Safipur General Hospital where the doctors declared the duo dead.

Being informed, police recovered the bodies and sent those to hospital morgue for autopsy, Officer-in-Charge Motaleb Mia of Kaliakoir Police Station said.