RAB is interrogating four persons over the deaths of a girl and her little brother at Rampura in Dhaka after forensics said they might have been murdered.
Published : 01 Mar 2016, 07:08 PM
The four are two security guards of the building, the siblings’ house tutor and a relative, RAB-3 official Md Mostaq Ahmed said.
RAB took them to their camp from the house at Banasree on Tuesday afternoon after receiving the post-mortem report.
“We have not arrested or detained them. We are just interrogating them as part of the investigation,” RAB official Ahmed said.
Viqarunnisa Noon School student Ishrat Zahan Oroni, 14, and her brother 6-year-old Alvi Aman were declared dead by Dhaka Medical College Hospital when they were taken to the hospital in unconscious condition on Monday night.
The family said they ate food at a restaurant on Sunday night and took home the leftovers. They ate the leftovers on Monday afternoon and went to sleep and did not wake up.
Doctors found bruises and finger prints on their throats during post-mortem examination on Tuesday morning.
Injury marks were also found on several areas of the bodies, including the chins.
“We are awaiting a viscera report. But, we suspect they have been murdered,” DMCH forensic department’s Assistant Professor Md Sohel Mahmud said.
Forensic doctor Pradip Biswas said that the deaths were due to ‘lack of oxygen’.
“Bruises have been found on the throats and they appear to have bitten their tongues,” he said.
The foods found in their stomachs have been collected for viscera.
Rampura police OC Rafikul Islam said that they had detained the manager, an employee and the cook of the restaurant where the children went on Sunday.
The family was yet to file any case until Tuesday afternoon.