Mother and two children die in Chirirbandar, husband and in-laws in police custody
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Police have recovered the body of a housewife along with those of her two young children from a room of a house in Mostafapur Balupara village of Amarpur union in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur at about 7pm on Sunday night.
The dead are Swarna Akter (24), wife of Sakil Islam of the Balupara area of Amarpur union in Chirirbandar upazila, their son Safayet (4) and daughter Raifa Moni (2).
A murder case over the incident, with the dead housewife’s father Khairul Islam as the complainant, is in process. The dead woman’s husband and her father-in-law and mother-in-law are being named as accused in the case.
Local people said Shakil Hossain is an auto-rickshaw driver by profession. There are allegations that he is addicted to drugs. Since their marriage he used to torture Swarna for various reasons. There were frequent quarrels between them over this. They quarrelled on Sunday afternoon as well.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime and Ops) Anwar Hossain said police have recovered the bodies of the mother and her two young children. The dead woman’s husband and her father-in-law and mother-in-law have been taken into police custody over the incident. A post-mortem examination will be carried out and the actual facts will be known after that.
The numbers
A report of 15 July 2026 in Ajker Patrika, citing data compiled by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, said 1,368 women and girl children in the country were subjected to torture and violence in the six months from January to June 2026.
According to the same report, in June alone 54 women and girl children were killed outright and another 33 died in mysterious circumstances.
Source
Background source: Ajker Patrika, 15 July 2026
