Mother, two girls found dead in Nilphamari

Police recovered dead bodies of a woman and her two daughters from Chowdhury Haat cluster village in Kathali union of Jaldhaka upazila under the district yesterday morning.

It is suspected that the woman, Fency Begum, 32, committed suicide after killing her daughters Aklima, 5, and Khadiza, 3.

Aklima as usual went to the nearby madrasa for study around 7:30am and returned home after one hour, locals said.

Then Fency's husband Ashraful Islam, 40, a day labourer, bought some snacks, handed it over to daughter Aklima on the way and went to the adjacent village for work.

Hearing no sound from the house for a long time, neighbours became suspicious, peeped through the hole of the bamboo fence of the house and found the woman hanging from the ceiling with a rope.

Entering the room they also found her two lifeless daughters, wearing new dresses, lying on the bed and informed police.

Due to conflict with his wife, Ashraful stayed with his mother in a different house of the same cluster for several days, said Sohrab Hossain Tuhin, chairman of Kanthali union.

Fency often quarrelled with her husband and on several occasions, neighbours mediated between them, locals said.

It seems that the woman first strangled her two daughters and then she committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling with a rope, said Dilwar Hasan Inam, officer in charge of Jaldhaka Police Station.

Fency's husband Ashraful Islam filed a murder case with Jaldhaka Police Station accusing unnamed people while police filed an unnatural death case in this connection.

Police sent the bodies to Nilphamari 100-bed Hospital for autopsy at noon.