Domestic help found dead
A teenage domestic help was mysteriously killed at an apartment in the city's Sabujbagh area yesterday.
The deceased, Halima Akhter, 14, hailed from Ghatail in Tangail. She joined her current work 12 days back.
Sabujbagh police recovered the body from the top floor of a six-storied building of her employer at Ahmedbagh in Sabujbagh around 3:00pm.
Employer MA Zaman, a private service holder, and his wife Anjuman Ara Begum, a banker, and their two children were out of house when the incident occurred, said the employer's family members and police sources.
When the two children returned from school, they found their flat locked from inside, said family members.
Later, when the door was opened using duplicate keys, the body was found lying in the master bedroom and two almiras were found broken, they added.
Anjuman suspected that miscreants killed their domestic help and took away valuables from the almiras, though she could not ascertain which things were robbed.
Abdus Salam, a security guard of the building, said one of the two persons, who had reconnected the cable line on Tuesday, visited the flat yesterday but left within a short time.
Abdul Quayum, officer-in-charge of Sabujbagh Police Station, said they picked up the building security guard and five persons of the cable line provider for interrogation on the matter.
Though the person who went to the flat on the incident day was not picked up, he added.
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