Death of two Banasree siblings
It�s �murder�
Law enforcement agencies are still clueless 30 hours after two children were found dead in their residence at Banasree of the capital on Monday afternoon. Some local sources, however, said that it was a murder incident and extramarital affairs were responsible for that. Earlier, the family of the two murdered children had alleged that they had died after having food from a Chinese takeaway. Nusrat Jahan Urmi, 14, a class VII student of Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother, Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student of Holy Crescent School in Banasree, are suspected to have been murdered on Monday.
Deputy police commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) (Mothijheel division), Md Anwar Hossain, disclosed that the statements of the family members and the forensic doctors were very different. The children might have been strangled to death, stated Dr Pradip Biswas, lecturer in the forensic department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), who was part of the team that carried out the autopsy. He told newspersons that Nusrat Jahan Urmis body bore an injury mark around the throat. The body of her younger brother, Alvi Aman, bore injury marks on the throat as well as on a leg.
After visiting the spot, Mostak Ahmed, company commander of Rapid Action Battalion-3 (RAB-3), said, We find that the statements on the incident are different.
Lt Col. Khandaker Golam Sarwar, RAB-3 commanding officer, said, We have taken in four persons, including the female house tutor, Sheuli Akter, 28. We also picked up the house guard Pintu Mondhol, 32, caretaker Ferdous Howleder, 30, Obaidul Islam, a cousin of the victims mother, and Shahin, 22, a cousin of the victims.
According to our information, no outsider was present during the murder, he added.
Jesmin was home but her husband was out, he told this correspondent.
Another source said Jesmins sister, Afroza Maleq Nila, was present immediately after the incident.
Some locals said that family members claimed that the minors died of food poisoning. But we did not see any sadness on the couples faces even after the deaths of their two children, they alleged. A few of the locals observed that after keeping the bodies of their son and daughter at the morgue of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the couple mysteriously left the hospital.Some family members, however, claimed that Amanullah Malek and his wife Jesmin Akter had simply gone to their village home at Amlapara in Jamalpur district town.
Earlier, around 12:30pm, they had left their residence at Banashree, where the two minors had died, after keeping the keys with Obaidul Haque, a cousin of Jesmin. We are going to the DMCH morgue to take the body, he quoted the couple as saying.
Talking to The Independent on reaching their hometown, Amanullah said: At around 6pm, my wife told me that their two children had become senseless. On getting the news, I started for my home, as I was out. I called my friend Zahidul Islam to go to my home. A few minutes later, I was asked to go to the DMCH hospital. On reaching there, I saw that my children had died.
Two house tutorsone female, one malecame to my house to teach my child around 3:30pm. At this time, my wife was sleeping in an adjacent room, he cited his 70-year-old mother, who was also present at the residence, as saying.
On waking up from he siesta, my wife saw my daughter and son lying on the floor. I dont know how they died, he said.
We have no family or business dispute, added Amanullah.
We will decide on filing a case later, he said, as we are now in a state of shock. Sheuli Akter, one of the house tutors of the minors, told the reporters that she came to know the tragic news after she had come to teach both children. I came here around 3pm and saw that no one was at home. Later I learnt that the two children had died, she said.
Describing her last memories of the children, Sheuli Akter said: When I came on Monday afternoon, I saw they were watching TV. I left the house around 4pm. Before leaving the house, I saw a woman there, whom I had not seen earlier. Pintu, the guard of the house, said: While I was on duty, I did not hear any soundneither any shouts or cries. Referring to the tutor of the house, he said, I did not see him on Monday. But he might have entered at the time of the prayers.
According to him, the house-owner, Md Abdul Kader, is a teacher of mathematics of Ideal School and College in the city. He said on the couple had rented the flat at Tk. 19,000 per month in August last year. Amanullah was a friend of my colleague Shafiqul Islam, he added.
