Woman commits suicide after killing 2 children

A woman allegedly committed suicide after killing her two children in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj last night.

Hadisa Begum, 25, first slit the throats of her two children – two-year-old Meem and seven-month-old Mujahid before hanging herself from the ceiling fan, said Officer-in-charge of Madhabpur Police Station Chandan Kumar Chakrabarty.

Hearing screams of the children, the neighbour went to Hadisa’s house at Nijnagar village and knocked the door around 9:00pm, the official said.

Informed by locals, police reached the spot and recovered the bodies around 11:00pm.

Hadisa’s husband Mujibur Rahman is a shopkeeper in the area and was at the shop at that time, the official said.

The reason behind the incident could not be known yet but efforts are on to determine the cause, said Dharmaghar union Chairman Shamsul Islam Khan.

Source: thedailystar