Young couple found dead in city flat

The bodies of a young married couple were recovered at their newly-rented flat in Dhaka's Mohammadpur in what police suspect was a murder-suicide incident on Sunday.

The dead were identified as Md Noman, 27, an expatriate returnee from Saudi Arabia, and his wife, Shamima Akhter, 20. They got married about a year ago.

"Noman's body was found hanging from the ceiling while Shamima's was on the floor," said Pantosh Banik, sub-inspector (SI) of Mohammadpur Police Station.

Post-mortem reports indicated that the woman might have been strangled to death while the man might have committed suicide, morgue sources said.

According to police, the couple rented the flat on the second floor of a five-storey building on Babar Road on September 12, four days after Noman returned from Saudi Arabia.

On Sunday, they were supposed to submit copies of their NID cards to the landlord, but they were not responding to calls.

Later that night, the building's security guards contacted the police, who broke into the flat and discovered the bodies.

The victims' families said they were unaware that the couple rented the flat.

According to them, Noman went to Saudi Arabia a few months after their marriage and stayed there for six months.

Their bodies were kept at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital mortuary.

Police said a murder case was being filed.