Published : 09 Dec 2025, 08:50 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 02:51 PM
Police have opened a murder case after a woman and her teenage daughter were found stabbed to death in their flat in Dhaka's Mohammadpur.
The case was filed on Tuesday by AZM Azizul Islam, the husband and father of the victims, according to Mohammadpur Police Station chief (OC) Mezbah Uddin.
The bodies of Laila Afroze, 48, and her 15-year-old daughter Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziz were discovered inside their seventh-floor flat on Shahjahan Road on Monday. Nafisa was a 9th-grade student at Mohammadpur Preparatory School. Her mother was a homemaker.
OC Mezbah Uddin said a domestic worker has been accused in the case.
“We know her as Ayesha, but we have not yet confirmed whether that is her real name.”
Azizul, a physics teacher at Sunbeams School in Uttara, had left for work early on Monday morning. He told police he returned home around 11am to find the front door ajar and the bodies of his wife and daughter lying inside with multiple stab wounds.
CCTV footage from the building showed a young woman entering the flat around 7:51am wearing a burqa and leaving less than two hours later dressed in a school uniform belonging to Nafisa. Police say she had been hired as a temporary domestic worker only four days earlier and was the key suspect.
Investigators earlier said the suspect appeared to have used the family bathroom after the attack and left the flat without drawing attention. The caretaker who allowed her in did not recognise her when she left in different clothing, police said.
They also found signs of a struggle inside the flat and said almirahs and bags had been ransacked, suggesting that valuables may have been taken.
Mezbah Uddin said police were hopeful of providing an update on an arrest very soon.
