2 women killed

Two young women were brutally murdered and another was injured in city's Khilgaon area in the early hours yesterday.
Police are on the look for a young man who identified himself as a brother of one of the victims and spent the night in the house, but fled after the killings.
The deceased were identified as two cousins, Halima Akhter, 20 and Shanta Islam Moyna, 22. The injured woman Kohinur Nesa Brishti, under going treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital at present, was their flatmate.
All three girls were the tenants of a two-room house on the second floor of a four-storey building owned by Abu Taher in Sipahibagh Bazar in Khilgaon.
Police identified Shanta as an employee of Noman Fashion at DIT Road in Malibagh while Halima worked at a beauty parlour. Brishti worked in a private clinic, police said.
Brishti said, a young man identifying himself as Shanta's brother Reza, came to the house on Monday evening. He stayed with Shanta and Halima who shared a room in the house while Brishti occupied the other.
"I woke up at around 3:00 am on hearing screams in the room next door. When I rushed there, I found Shanta and Halim's slaughtered bodies. There was also stab marks all over their bodies," Brishti said.
"As I cried out for help, Reza started chasing me. He attacked me on my face repeatedly and after tying up my hands and legs, fled the house."
Brishti was stabbed with a sharp object on her cheeks and neck.
Deputy commissioner Monirul Islam of the Detective Branch (DB) of police said that they suspected that besides Reza at least two to three others might have entered the house at some point before the killings.
"It is not easy to ascertain what happened. Some contraceptive materials were recovered from the house which may hold some clue to the incident," Monirul said adding, "If the fugitive youth is arrested, the mystery will be unearthed."
Shanta's brother-in-law Shamim Ahmed confirmed that Shanta and Halima came from Bagerhat district and were cousins.
He told The Daily Star that Shanta did have a brother by the name of Reza, but that he has no way of knowing if the youth who had visited the house the previous night was indeed Reza.