4 of a family murdered at Tangail home

Four members of a family were found murdered inside their home in Tangail's Madhupur yesterday.

Assailant(s) hacked them and slit their throats, said police, after recovering the bodies.

The victims are Gani Miah, 45, his wife Tajiron, 37, son Tajel, 14, and daughter Sadia, 9. 

Locals said Gani, of Golabari village in Madhupur upazila, constructed a house at Masterpara in Madhupur municipality area around a year ago and started living there.   

They got a stench from the house yesterday morning and informed Madhupur police of the matter.

Tarek Kamal, officer-in-charge of Madhupur Police Station, told The Daily Star that a police team went to the spot and found the house locked from outside. 

Entering the house, they found the bodies in three rooms.  

Gani was a rickshaw-van trader. Besides, he used to give people loans and take interests on them, the police officer said.

Shafiqul Islam, additional superintendent of Tangail police, said the four might have been killed a couple of days ago. Police were investigating the incident, he added. 

After visiting the spot, Sanjit Kumar Roy, superintendent of Tangail police, told journalists that they have already got some clues, but would not disclose those now for the "sake of investigation".  

He hoped that they could identify the killers soon through probe. 

Meanwhile, a team of Criminal Investigation Department collected evidence from the spot, said Riazul Hoque, special superintendent of police of the CID.