Police recovered the bodies of a Comilla University student and her mother from a rented house in the Kaliajuri area in the Cumilla city early Monday.
The deceased were identified as Tahmina Begum, 40, and her daughter Sumaiya Afrin, 22, a student of the public administration department at Comilla University under the 2021鈥�22 academic session.
Local residents said that Tahmina, who lost her husband Nurul Islam past year, had been living in the rented house with her children.
Her elder son, Alamin Ahmed, is a lawyer and now lives in Dhaka, while her younger son, Faisal Ahmed, works at a company in the Cumilla Export Processing Zone. Faisal said that that he went to Dhaka on September 5 to visit his wife and returned to Cumilla on Sunday night.
鈥榃hen I reached home, I knocked on the door repeatedly but got no response. The door, which was propped up with a table from inside, opened when I pushed it. I then found my mother and sister dead in two separate rooms,鈥� he said.
Faisal, later, called the national emergency helpline 999 at about 2:00am.
Cumilla kotwali police station officer-in-charge Md Mohinul Islam said that there were injury marks on the necks of both victims.
However, the cause of their deaths could be confirmed after the autopsy, Mohinul said, adding that police were investigating the matter.
The Rapid Action Battalion, after analysing CCTV footage, detained Abdur Rahman, 73, a kabiraj (spiritual healer) from Nangalkot upazila in this connection, the police official said.