Addict son kills mother, neighbour

A woman and her neighbour were hacked to death in Tangail's Madhupur upazila yesterday allegedly by her son after she refused to give him money for buying drugs.

The bodies of Minara Begum, 48, wife of Mohammad Ali of Koiapara village, and Akbar Ali, 52, were sent to Tangail General Hospital for autopsies.

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Locals caught the accused, Miraz, 28, and handed him over to police.

Ali and his son Al-Amin, 30, were taken into "safe custody" to protect them from enraged locals, Madhupur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Shafiqul Islam told The Daily Star.

Miraz and Minara got engaged in an altercation in the morning after she refused to provide drug money and Miraz brought a machete from the kitchen and hacked her, he said, adding that Akbar was hacked when he came to Minara's aid.