A housewife was strangled to death allegedly by her husband in the Bhatara area of Dhaka in the early hours of on Wednesday.
Fahima Begum, 27, lived with her husband and five-month-old child in Farazitola of Bhatara.
Shahidul Alam, sub-inspector of Bhatara police station, told the Dhaka Tribune that upon receiving information from the locals, they had recovered the body of the deceased around 11am.
He said: “We recovered the body of the victim from her bed and she might have been strangulated with a pillow as blood was found flowing from her nose and mouth.” The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy and a case was filed with the police station in this regard, he added.
“We are currently searching for Fahima’s husband. He had left the house with all his possessions but we are trying our best to get identity the victim’s family to trace Fahima’s husband,” the SI Shahidul said.
Sohrab Hossain Bakul, the owner of the building, told the Dhaka Tribune that the couple with their five-month-old child became tenants of the building only three days ago.
“For these reasons, we could not get much time to take the details of the couple and their family addresses,” Bakul said.
Asia Begum and Rezaul Islam, who lived next door to the couple, told the Dhaka Tribune they had heard shouting and realised the couple were engaged in an argument as they were using inappropriate words to each other in high voices.
The neighbours said: “Around midnight, we went to sleep and after sometime the couple also stopped quarrelling.”
Asia Begum said: “Around 5am, we heard the baby crying for a long time. Later, we knocked on the door but after receiving no response, we peeked through the window and found that Fahima’s body was on the bed and the baby was crying beside her.”
SI Shahidul said the whereabouts of the child’s guardians or relatives were still unknown, so they had left the baby in the care of the building owner.
