‘Banashree siblings may have been strangled’

The siblings who were found dead at home in Dhaka’s Banashree area on Monday night, may have been strangled to death.

Doctor Pradip Biswas, lecturer of the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) who was part of the team that carried out the autopsy, came up with the findings.

He told newsmen that the bodies of Nusrat Jahan Urmi bore an injury mark around her throat while the body of her younger brother Alvi Aman bore injury marks around his throat as well as a leg, reports UNB news agency.

The official autopsy report is yet to be released.

Earlier, the family of Nusrat and Alvi alleged that they died after having a Chinese takeaway.

Nusrat Jahan Urmi, 14, a Class-VII student of Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student of Holy Crescent School in Banashree, are thought to have died on Monday.