Woman, son die in Gazipur fire
A woman and her son died as a fire broke out in their house in Shwashanghat area in Joydevpur of Gazipur yesterday.
The deceased were Sathi Begum, 36, and her son Mohammad Rabbi, 3.
Police suspect that Sathi committed suicide by putting their house on fire following a feud with her husband, and their son was also killed in the process.
Sources at Fire Service and Civil Defence said the fire broke out in the tin shed house around 1:00pm. Two teams of fire service from Gazipur went to the spot and doused it after about 30 minutes of efforts.
Members of the fire service recovered the bodies from a room of the house, and sent those to Gazipur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, they said.
Quoting locals, Joydevpur Police Station Sub-Inspector Bacchu Miah, told the Daily Star that Sathi and her husband Saiful Islam, a CNG auto-rickshaw driver, had been living in the rented house.
Saiful left the house after a quarrel with Sathi around 12:00 noon, he said.
Around 1:00pm, neighbours found blaze and fumes inside Sathi's house. They knocked on the door but they found it locked from inside, the SI said.
The neigbours broke the door open, but could not enter the house as the blaze engulfed it. So they informed the fire service about the blaze.
SI Bacchu said Sathi was Saiful's second wife. It was also Sathi's second marriage. They got married about five years back.
The couple had been engaged in quarrels for the last few days as Saiful recently wanted to take Sathi to his village home, he said quoting locals as saying.
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