Man arrested for ‘killing’ wife, daughter
Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murders of his wife and daughter in Mymensingh city on Wednesday.
The deceased are Ruma Akter, 38, and her 13-year-old daughter Nafia Akter, a fourth grader.
The law enforcers arrested Shafiqul Islam Shaheen, 47, of Khagdohor Ghonti area, from Kishoreganj Bus Stand area around 2:30pm.
Earlier on Wednesday, Shaheen, a money lender, strangled his wife Ruma and daughter Nafia over a family feud at his house, Khandaker Shaker Ahmed, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Kotwali Police Station, quoted locals as saying.
When Shaheen’s elder daughter Sadia Alter Labonya, 22, a married girl, came to visit her parents in the evening, she found her mother and sister dead.
As she started screaming, Shaheen also attempted to strangle her, the OC said, adding that when neighbours rushed to the spot, Shaheen fled the scene.
On information police recovered the bodies and sent those to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) morgue for autopsy last evening. Labonya was also admitted at MMCH.
Police suspected that Shaheen might have killed his wife and daughter óver family feud’.
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