All four members of a family were found dead in their South Keraniganj residence on the outskirts of the capital city on Wednesday morning, in the latest of a number of incidents of bizarre bedroom murder in recent times.
Identities of the victims and the motives behind the quadruple murder were not immediately known, police said. They are a 35-year-old man, his wife (28), son (06), and daughter (02).
Agencies report that police, on information, recovered the bodies of the couple and their two children from the house at Kolakandi village around 10:00am.
Police picked up Sohel alias Sumon, the caretaker of the house that belongs to an expatriate, to record his statement regarding the incident, said Habibur Rahman, superintendent of police of Dhaka district.
Police suspect that the four were strangulated to death.
Sohel went to the house in the morning to receive house rent, police quoted the caretaker as saying. He saw the door open and entered into the flat. Sohel then saw legs under the bed.
He also smelt bad odor.
Police went to the spot on getting information from locals and recovered the decomposed bodies.
The tenants of the flat did not pay the rent while moving into the first-floor flat at the six-storey building two months ago, police said. The house is owned by one Shamsu Mia, who now lives in Saudi Arabia.
The hands and mouths of the dead were tied with ropes, police said.
"We suspect that the murders might have taken place one or two days ago in a preplanned manner," said the police officer, SP Habibur Rahman.
Police, quoting locals, said a man, named Rafique, rented the house two months back but later the family started living in there identifying the man as their nephew.
