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Mother, daughter take life

10 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

A Correspondent, Comilla

A woman and her daughter committed suicide yesterday allegedly by taking poison in Puranbazar area in Debidwer upazila. Locals said Mazida Begum,55, wife of Arafat Ali and her daughter Salma Akhter,20, took poison at around 8.00am after a serious quarrel. Police recovered the bodies and sent them to Comilla Medical College Hospital for autopsy.