Police yet to nab killers

The deceased are Shahanara Khatun, 26, wife of Abbas Ali and their daughter Masuma, 4, of the same village

The villagers found Shahanara's body hanging with the branch of a tree near Akbar Ali Mollah's house at the same village while Masuma's body was recovered by people from a nearby pond, according to police.

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Miscreants abducted the victim's husband Abbas Ali from his house on July 4 as he was a witness of a toll collection case, local people said. Since then he was missing.

On July 10, Shahanara filed a general diary (GD) with Assassuni thana for abducting her husband. She named Mizanur Rahman, Bhutto, Akbar Ali Mollah, Abu Sayeed, Zulfiqar Ali and Palash of the same village as accused.

Being informed, sub-inspector (SI) of police Abdul Majid of Assassuni thana went to the spot to investigate the case but he came back after taking bribe from the accused, alleged local people. From then on the miscreants became violent and began to threaten her.

On Tuesday afternoon, both the ill-fated mother and daughter went to a relative's house at the same village. They set for home from there at about 10 that night.

While on way home, the miscreants abducted and strangled them, according to local people. After the twin murder, they tried to divert it into an incident of suicide. They hanged the housewife's body with the branch of a tree and threw her daughter's body into the pond, local people alleged.

However, after several hours of the incident police filed a murder case.