Staff Reporter :Forensic experts of the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) claimed that the two siblings in the city’s Rampura might have been strangled to death though their family claimed they died of food poisoning.The deceased are Nusrat Jahan Aroni, 14, a Class-VII student of Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother Alvi Aman, 6, a Nursery student of Holy Crescent School. They were the children of businessman Mohammad Amanullah.The autopsies were performed at DMCH on Tuesday morning, when doctors found bruises on their throats.”We have found bruises and finger prints on the victims’ throats,” DMCH Forensic Department’s Assistant Professor Md Sohel Mahmud told The New Nation on Tuesday. He said injury marks were also found on several areas of the bodies, including the chins. “We are awaiting a viscera report. But we suspect they have been murdered.”Contacted, forensic doctor Pradip Biswas said that the deaths were due to “want of oxygen”.”Bruises and absorptions have been found on the throats of the two deceased,” he said.We collected food found in the children’s stomach for viscera test as the relatives said that the two died of food poisoning, Pradip further said. Around 8:00pm on Monday, the unconscious siblings were rushed to the DMCH, where the doctors declared them dead.Their aunt Afroza Mila said that the siblings had eaten food from a restaurant situated at the capital’s Rampura on Sunday night.They brought the leftovers home and ate them on Monday afternoon before going to sleep, she said. “But they did not wake up.”She said that the bodies were buried at the family graveyard in Jamalpur district after a Namaz-e-Janaza.Police said that the family has not filed any case in connection with the deaths until Tuesday afternoon.Rampura Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Rafiqul Islam said that they had detained the manager, an employee and the cook of the restaurant where the children went on Sunday.
