Woman’s throat-slit body recovered

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a housewife from Pashchim Bazar area in Netrakona's Purbadhala upazila yesterday morning.

The victim was identified as Lipi Akter, 35, wife of Azizul Islam of the area.

Police said Azizul is a BGB personnel and his wife Lipi used to live at home with her fifth-grader son.

Quoting the deceased's relatives and neighbours, Officer in Charge of Purbadhala Police Station Mohammad Tawhidur Rahman said family members found Lipi and her brother-in-law, Azizul's cousin, Russell Ahmed, 28, in critical state at Lipi's house around 4:00am.

Hearing scrams, neighbour and family members entered her room and found the duo with their throat-slit and took them to Purbadhala Upazila Health Complex, where the doctors declared Lipi dead.

Later, Russel, proprietor of a computer shop, was shifted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital as his condition deteriorated.

Police primarily suspected that the two might have been in an extramarital affair.

Russel might have killed Lipi by slitting her throat with a sharp weapon and then tried to take his own life in the same fashion, the OC added.

They were trying to find out the motive behind the murder, the OC said, adding that no case has been filed as of filing of this report around 7:00pm.