4 of a family found dead at home

Police yesterday recovered throat-slit bodies of four members of a family from their home in Gazipur's Sreepur upazila.

The victims are Fatema Begum, 40; her daughters Noora, 16, and Irin, 11; and son Fadil, 7; of Abdar area.

Fatema's husband Kajal Miah is an expatriate in Malaysia. She used to live at the house for around 20 years, said Arif, Fatema's brother-in-law.

According to Arif, Fatema called him over phone and asked him to deliver some essential commodities and kitchen items at her home on Wednesday evening.

Arif reached Fatema's place yesterday morning and knocked her door but none responded, he said, adding that he went back to the house again at 2:00pm but to no avail.

Worried, he entered the house using the roof of a neighbouring house and found the bodies lying on the floor, he said.

Liakat Ali, officer-in-charge of Sreepur Police Station, said they rushed to the spot around 4:00pm on information and recovered the bodies.

Two knives were also recovered from the spot. The reason behind the killings could not be known immediately, he added.