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Police have recovered the bodies of a university student and her mother from their home in Cumilla city.
The victims were identified as Tahmina Akter, 50, wife of the late Nurul Islam, a former official at a Cumilla court, and her daughter Sumaiya Afrin, 24, a student at Cumilla University.
The bodies were discovered early on Monday morning on the second floor of a building near the Kaliajuri playground, according to police.
Investigators said they have collected CCTV footage and other evidence from the scene. They suspect the two may have been murdered, according to a bdnews24.com report.
“The bodies have been sent to the morgue. The exact cause or time of death can't be confirmed yet,” said Mahinul Islam, chief of Cumilla Kotwali Police Station.
The house was rented three and a half years ago by Nurul Islam. Following his death last year, Tahmina had been living there with her children.
Her eldest son, Tajul Islam Faisal, is a lawyer at the High Court in Dhaka, while her younger son, Saiful Islam Al Amin, works at Cumilla EPZ. Although Saiful usually stays in Cumilla, he was in Dhaka on Sunday.
The house owner, Anisul Islam Rana, said that the family kept to themselves and rarely interacted with neighbours.
According to him, the sons returned home late Sunday night and found the main door open. They initially assumed their mother and sister were asleep. When they failed to wake them, they called the emergency hotline 999, after which police arrived and recovered the bodies.
Rana said that CCTV footage from Sunday shows a man entering and leaving the house during the day. Police have been informed of the matter, he added.