2 missing boys found dead

Two young brothers were found brutally killed beside a ditch in Osmani Nagar upazila of Sylhet on Monday afternoon.

The two children -- Abdul Mumin, 11, and Rujel Ahmed, 7 -- were both students of Chintamoni Government Primary School in the upazila.

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Police quoting family members and locals said the boys went missing following their fishing trip on Monday afternoon to a nearby haor (wetland) in their village home Chintamoni with their father, Sadir Ahmed of the same village.

Family members of the children started looking for them as their father did not return home with them after the sunset. They informed the police after finding the dead children, with a number of stab wounds and bruises all over their bodies, beside a ditch adjoining the haor.

Police recovered and sent the bodies of the children to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital for autopsy on Tuesday morning, said police.

Anwarul Islam, inspector (investigation) of Osmani Nagar Police Station, said the wounds on the victims' bodies might have been caused by both blunt objects and sharp weapons. 

Quoting the boys' mother, Nurbi Begum, the inspector said she and other family members suspect the father, Sadir Ahmed, might have run away after killing the boys.

Filing of a case in this connection is still underway, he added.