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One kills wife, himself

8 July 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Tangail

A middle-aged man has killed himself after killing his wife at Asharia Chala village under Dhalapara union in Ghatail upazila. Officer-in-charge of Ghatail police station said Abu Jafar, 50, chopped to death his wife Anwara Begum, 40, mother of five children after quarrel over a triffle matter on Saturday afternoon. Jafar later committed suicide at night by hanging from a tree at the village. Police sent the bodies to morgue for autopsy and two cases were filed with Ghatail police station.