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Download PDF Unknown assailants killed a mother and her four daughters by slitting their throats in Khalisha village under Bhashanchar union of Mehendiganj upazila in Barisal on Monday night.
The deceased were identified as Tanjira Begum, 40, wife of Jahangir Hawlader, and her four daughters Anjuman Ara, 16, Shathi, 11, Jannatul, 9, and Ferdousi, 6.
Tanjira’s one and a half year old daughter Sagarika however was luckily unharmed.
Liaqat Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Mehendiganj police station, said the assailants entered the victims’ house by boring a hole into a wall around 3:00am when Tanjira and her daughters were sleeping.
The assailants first hacked them with sharp weapons and then slit their throats, he added.
Police recovered the bodies yesterday morning and sent them to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Police picked up Tanjira’s brothers Shahjahan Bairagi and Shahid Bairagi on suspicion of being involved in the murder. Police also detained the victims’ neighbours Tania Begum, Joynob Bibi, and Parvin in the police station for interrogation.
Shahjahan, who is a retired police officer, said he heard voices of some people coming from his sister’s house and as he came out of his own house to check what was going on, he saw 12 to 15 armed individuals leaving the house.
He also said, “The neighbours rushed to the house as I yelled, robbers.” Later, he informed the police.
Shahjahan said he has been having disputes with one of his neighbours over a piece of land for a long time, where he built a house and let her sister’s family live there so he could keep the land in his possession.
He suspects that people who are in dispute with him over the land might have killed her sister and nieces.
Tawfiq Mahbub, superintendent of police (SP) of Barisal, who visited the spot, said the land dispute might have been the motive for the gruesome murders.
He also said family members of the victims might also have been involved in the crime to frame their rivals.
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