Mother, daughter found dead in Jamalpur

Police have recovered the throat-slit bodies of a 50-year-old woman and her daughter from a house at Gobindapur in Melandah upazila of Jamalpur district, UNB reports.

The deceased were identified as Joyful Bewa, wife of Akmal Hossain and her daughter Swapna Begum, 30 of the village.

MM Moynul Islam, officer-in-charge of Melandah Police Station, said Joyful used to live with her daughter at the house.

On Saturday evening, local people found their bodies and informed police.

On information, police recovered the bodies around 7:30pm on and sent those to Jamalpur General Hospital morgue for autopsy.

The reason behind the killing could not be known immediately.

Miscreants might have killed them over previous enmity, said the OC.