2 held on charges of triple murder at Jatrabari
Four days after the killings of a mother and her two daughters in the city's Jatrabari area, police arrested two youths on March 3 and 4 and recovered a bangle of the mother.
Jatrabari police said criminals strangled Shahnaj Akther Nazma, 38, and her daughters Urmi Akhter, 14, and Rumi, 4, at her residence on February 28 only to take revenge on Nazma.
Jatrabari police produced the criminals before a court yesterday to record their statements under section 164.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Mazharul Islam said they arrested suspected killer Masud Chowdhury alias Sumon, 21, who was brother of Nazma, from South Surma area in Sylhet Sadar on March 3.
According to his confessional statement, the same team arrested Sumon's accomplice Kamal Ahmed, 28, from Kotwali area of the town the following day.
Quoting Sumon, the SI said he was severely beaten up by his elder sister Nazma at the age of 10 and at that time he determined that he would kill his sister some day.
The accused mentioned that he made several futile attempts to kill his sister. On February 28, he along with his two accomplices reached Dhaka in the morning and took position near his sister's residence.
When Sumon's brother-in-law Abdur Rashid Khan and his nephew left the house, they entered it and strangled Nazma and Urmi, while Rumi was drowned in a big water container on their fourth floor flat in a six-storey building.
Acting on a tip-off, the SI said, they conducted a drive in Sylhet and arrested the two suspected killers, while the other suspect Anwar, 30, is still at large.
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