2 kids meet tragic death

Two siblings met tragic death as their father allegedly threw them into a pond at Suhila village in Sadar upazila early yesterday.

The victims -- five-year-old Oishi and five-month old Rohan Babu, were daughter and son of Mohammad Waliullah, a rickshaw van-puller of Suhila.

During police interrogation in the afternoon, Waliullah confessed to killing the children, said Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Abdur Rashid of Kotwali Police Station.

Waliullah married Rokshana Begum of adjacent Dapunia village seven years ago and the two children were born to them.

He got angry with his wife on various occasions as she liked to live at her parent's house, said the ASP, quoting confessional statement of Waliullah.

After staying at her parent's house for several months, Rokshana was taken to Waliullah's house by his relatives five days ago.

"As the feud continued, finally I took the decision to kill my two children and then commit suicide," Waliullah told police.

"Oishi was sleeping with my mother and Babu with my wife in separate rooms. Retuning home around 12:15am today, I entered my mother's house, took away Oishi and threw her into the pond. Then I did the same to Babu.

"I woke up my wife and mother from sleep and started screaming, saying that the two kids had gone missing. Family members and neighbours rushed to the spot and started searching here and there," police quoted Waliullah as saying.

Seeing the kids' bodies in the pond water in the morning, locals informed police who rushed to the spot, and sent the bodies to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital morgue.

The bodies were handed over to the family members after conducting autopsy at the hospital, said Mohammad Ali Sheikh, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Kotwali Police Station.