Staff Reporter :
Police recovered the hanging bodies of a man and his son from a flat of Moghbazar in the capital this evening.
The deceased were identified as Khairul Islam Sohag (55), and his son Shaharat Islam Areen (14), said Selim Shahriar Jibon, sub-inspector of Hatirjheel Police Station.
The bodies were recovered from separate rooms of the flat on the fourth floor of a building at Nayatola around 5:30pm and later sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for autopsy, said the SI.
“We found the hanging bodies of Khairul and Shaharat at ceiling fans with a piece of cloth (gamchha) in their rooms,” said the police official.
SI Selim further said Khairul’s wife Najmun Nahar Nupur, who went out of the home for shopping, found the house door locked from inside after she returned home this afternoon and informed police.
The police official said Areen was a physically challenged boy, while his father Khairul developed mental illness six months earlier due to the loss of his business. He also took treatment from a hospital.
Khairul along with wife and son, hailing from Ramganj of Laxmipur, used to live in the rented house in Nayatola area, said the police officer.
Police suspected that Khairul might have killed himself after killing his son, said the SI, adding that the exact cause behind their deaths will be known after getting the autopsy reports.
