Woman, housemaid found dead in Dhaka home, police recover bodies

Police have recovered the bodies of an elderly woman and a young housemaid in a home in Dhaka.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 3 Dec 2019, 02:55 PM
Updated : 3 Dec 2019, 06:54 PM

They went to the House No. 9 on Road No. 2 of Block A in Mirpur-2 on Tuesday evening on being called by locals, Mirpur Police Station Inspector Syed Aktar Hossain told bdnews24.com.

The woman is 60-year old Rahima Begum while the housemaid has been identified as Sumi Akter, 20.

Rahima was a tenant of a flat on the third floor of the building while Sumi began working there on Monday, police said.

Sumi initially appeared to be under-aged, but it was revealed later that she was married, according to the law enforcers.

The girl’s aunt found the door open and then the bodies when she visited the house after her phone calls had gone unanswered, she told police.

Details were yet to emerge as police’s Criminal Investigation Department started collecting evidence, OC Mostafizur Rahman said.

Moshtaque Ahmed, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said the victims appeared to have been strangled to death.

Khairul Amin, an assistant commissioner of DMP, said quoting neighbours that an adopted son of the woman sometimes visited the house. “We are checking on her adopted son,” he said.