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Police detains three over Dhanmondi double murder

Saturday, 2 November 2019


Police detained three people over the murder of two women in Dhanmondi area of Dhaka city on Friday night.

The detainees are – electrician Belayet, security guard Nuruzzaman, and Bacchu Mia, reports UNB.

Abdul Latif, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station, said, “We are interrogating them.”

On Friday evening, the bodies of Afroza Begum, 65, and Diti, 19, a domestic help, were recovered from a flat on the third floor of house No 21, on road 28.

Kazi Monir Uddin Tarin, deputy managing director of Creative Group and son-in-law of Afroza, said gold ornaments and cash were missing from the house.

Bachchu Mia is the bodyguard Afroza’s husband.

Tarin said Bachchu recently brought a new domestic help for his mother-in-law.

CCTV footage showed her getting out of the house on the day of the incident.

Police said they are looking for her in connection with the murder.