Police recover bodies of university student and mother in Cumilla; foul play suspected

NN ONLINE:

Police recovered the bodies of a university student and her mother from their home in Cumilla city.The victims are identified as Tahmina Akter, 50, wife of the late Nurul Islam, a former official at a Cumilla court, and her daughter Sumaiya Afrin, 24, a student at Cumilla University.

The bodies were found early Monday morning on the second floor of a building near the Kaliajuri playground, according to law enforcement.

Investigators have secured CCTV footage and other evidence from the scene and are treating the incident as a potential murder.“The bodies have been sent to the morgue.

The exact cause or time of death cannot be confirmed yet,” stated Mahinul Islam, chief of Cumilla Kotwali Police Station.The house had been rented about three and a half years ago by Nurul Islam. After Nurul Islam’s death last year, Tahmina had been living there with her children. Tahmina’s eldest son, Tajul Islam Faisal, works as a lawyer at the High Court in Dhaka, while her younger son, Saiful Islam Al Amin, is employed at Cumilla EPZ.

Saiful typically stays in Cumilla but happened to be in Dhaka on Sunday. The house owner, Anisul Islam Rana, noted that the family kept to themselves and had limited interactions with neighbors. According to Rana, the sons returned home late Sunday night, found the main door open, and initially assumed Tahmina and Sumaiya were asleep. When they did not wake, they contacted the emergency hotline 999, prompting police to arrive and recover the bodies.