A woman struggling in poverty has reportedly strangled her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to death using a rope before dying by suicide in Kushtia's Daulatpur, reports bdnews24.com.
The incident is said to have happened around 7:00 pm on Thursday in Insafnagar village in Ramkrishnapur union.
Police and locals say 25-year-old local resident Reshma Khatun, wife of Saudi expatriate Rahidul Islam, had broken down mentally over the past few days due to a financial crisis and family unrest.
On Thursday night, she allegedly killed her daughter Lamia before hanging herself from the ceiling of her house. At one point, neighbours went to the house and called for Reshma. When she did not respond, they looked through the window and saw the hanging body, broke down the door, recovered the body, and reported the incident to the police.
After receiving the report, police went to the scene and collected the bodies of the dead mother and child.
The body of a child and the body of her hanging mother were found in their own house, confirmed Md Solaiman Sheikh, chief of Daulatpur Police Station. The bodies have been sent to the morgue at Kushtia General Hospital on Friday morning to confirm the cause of death.
Woman strangles daughter to death, then kills herself in Kushtia
FE Team | Published: November 08, 2025 00:33:08
Woman strangles daughter to death, then kills herself in Kushtia
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