A man has allegedly strangulated his wife to death centring family feud in Kurgaon area of Ashulia early Tuesday.
Soon after the incident, the killer husband went into hiding to shun arrest.
The victim, Abina Begum, wife of Rashedul, was worker of a local factory and the couple had long been living in a rented house in the area.
The family members and police said Rashedul, from Gardharmopal village in Jaldanga area of Nilphamari district, married Abina several years ago and started living in the rented house.
The couple used to engage in altercation over conjugal disparity for last couple of months and Rashedul killed her in the dead of night.
In the morning, the neighbours spotted the body and informed police.
Ashulia police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mahsin Kadir said they sent the body to the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy and a case was registered there in this connection.
They primarily suspected the murder might have been centring family feud, the OC continued.
