The mother of the two siblings who had suspicious deaths recently in Dhaka’s Banasree have confessed to killing her children, said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
RAB media wing director Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan told the Dhaka Tribune: “Mahfuza Malek Jesmin killed her children over extra marital affair and psychological and social disorder.”
Details in this regard will be disclosed at RAB press onference at 1:30pm Thursday, said the elite force official.
Fourteen-year-old Nusrat Jahan and six-year-old Alvi Aman were declared dead at the DMCH after they had been brought there unconscious on Monday night. Family members claimed that the children slept after having leftover Chinese food at lunch and did not wake up.
Forensic experts’ suspicion that the two siblings from Dhaka’s Banasree might have been murdered get reinforced further as investigators yesterday said information provided by the parents and relatives did not match.
The family initially claimed the children had died from food poisoning on Monday, hours after “consuming contaminated food” at home. But after postmortem examinations, Dhaka Medical College forensic experts hinted at foul play.
They said they had found injury marks on the children’s neck. The boy had injury marks on his legs and his sister in the eyes. They said they were waiting for visceral test results to determine the cause of death.
Investigators said the mother Mahfuza Malek Jesmin had the same meal with her children but both Mahfuza and her sister Afroza Akter claimed only the children had Chinese food.
Besides, Mahfuza chose to stay at home when her children were taken to a nearby hospital, an act the investigators dubbed “unusual and suspicious.”
Afroza on Monday had told reporters at the DMCH that her sister and the children’s grandmother were at home at that time. Afroza, who lives down the road, claimed she had gone to her sister’s house after Mahfuza called her over phone.
