Man held for killing wife, daughter

A man was arrested for killing his wife and daughter over a family dispute in Ramganj, Lakshmipur.

Jamal Uddin and his wife Raushan Ara Begum had been in a domestic dispute since their marriage, said Mahmudul Hasan, commander of RAB 11 Noakhali, CPC, at a press conference yesterday afternoon.

Jamal lived in Dhaka's Rayedbagh area with his family. On April 15, he allegedly strangled Raushan to death and killed his one-year-old daughter by suffocating her while she was sleeping, said RAB.

He then left Dhaka for Noakhali loading the bodies in a wardrobe on a pickup. At one point, he aborted going to Noakhali and dumped the bodies in a canal in Ramganj.

On April 19, police found the decomposing bodies and subsequently filed a murder case with Ramganj Police Station against an unidentified accused.