Siblings hacked dead at flat in Tongi 

Two children have been hacked to death at a flat in Tongi area of Gazipur.

Police recovered the bodies of two  siblings around 6 pm on Friday (April 18).

Parents of the deceased have been taken to the police station for interrogation. 

Relatives believe that miscreants entered the flat between 4 pm and 5 pm and killed the brother and sister. 

The deceased are Maliha Akhter (6), daughter of Abdul Baten Mia at Tatuakandi in Bancharampur of Brahmanbaria, and her brother Md. Abdullah (4).

According to sources from the locals and relatives of the deceased, Baten Mia used to live with his family in a flat on the third floor of an 8-storey building called Setu Villa in Jamaibazar area of Arichpur in Tongi. The eldest daughter of his three children is at his grandmother's house. Maliha and Abdullah's mother fell asleep after taking headache medicine on Friday afternoon. When she woke up in the afternoon, she saw the bloody bodies of her son and daughter on the floor of the flat.

Tongi East Police Station OC Md. Faridul Islam said, “The incident of killing is mysterious. The mother and father of the deceased are giving separate information. Their statements are inconsistent. For this reason, both of them are being interrogated in police custody.”