A woman committed suicide by hanging herself after strangulating her minor boy to death at Bashbazar village in Pabna Sadar upazila yesterday morning.
Abdullah Al Hasan, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, said Poly Khatun, 20, wife of Jalal, firstly strangled her 10-month-old boy and kept the body under a quilt and later she committed suicide.
Poly’s husband Jalal returned to his house around 9am from Dogachhi bazar to have breakfast and found the door of his house locked from inside. Being informed by Jalal, local people came and broke the door and found Poly hanging from the ceiling of the room and his minor boy’s body lying on the bed.