Unidentified criminals hacked a woman and her five-year-old grandson to death and another grandson critically injured at the city’s Keraniganj yesterday.
The deceased were Sahida Begum Moyna, 45, wife of Ismail Hossain who is a Dhaka City Corporation employee, and Ahad.
Another grandson Salman, the same age of Ahad, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital last night with injury to his head.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Faruk Hossain of Keraniganj Circle told The Daily Star that on information they had gone to the house of Ismail Hossain around 10:00pm and recovered the two bodies.
Locals had taken Salman to Mitford Hospital before police arrived. Law enforcers later sent the child to DMCH.
Faruk Hossain said they had recovered a blood stained kitchen-knife from the spot.
Neither police nor the family members of the deceased could ascertain the cause behind the killings.
Talking to reporters at his residence, Ismail Hossain said, “I went to my workplace around 7:00am. I found the room locked from outside as I returned home at about 3:30pm.”
Ismail went on saying he had looked for them for about five hours. “Finding them nowhere, I peeped through the window around 8:30pm and saw the bodies.”
He along with some of his relatives entered the house by breaking the door and informed the police, added Ismail.
