Police have arrested the domestic worker suspected of murdering a mother and daughter in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area, days after the bodies were discovered in their apartment.
Officers detained the woman, identified as Aysha, in Jhalakathi on Wednesday (December 10).
Md Ibne Mizan, Deputy Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Tejgaon Division, confirmed the arrest.
Police had earlier identified Aysha as the prime suspect in the double murder, after CCTV footage showed her fleeing the building shortly after the incident.
The killings came to light on Monday morning when the victim’s husband, AZ Azizul Islam, a school teacher, entered their seventh-floor flat on Shahjahan Road using a duplicate key. Inside, he found his wife, Laila Afroz, 48, and their daughter, 15-year-old Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziz, lying in pools of blood. victims
Police said Laila died at the scene, while Nafisa was rushed to nearby Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead.
Investigators recovered two bloodstained knives next to the bodies, prompting questions over whether the suspect acted alone or had accomplices.
Md Ibne Mizan said CCTV footage shows the domestic worker leaving the building wearing a mask and carrying a bag, before boarding a rickshaw.
“Her clothes appeared clean in the footage, suggesting she may have changed her attire inside the apartment after the killings,” DC Mizan said.
Inside the flat, police found that furniture, wardrobes and vanity bags had been ransacked, indicating a possible attempt at robbery or a search for valuables.
Investigators said the woman had been hired as a domestic worker only four days before the killings. Police are now verifying her identity and suspect that “Aysha” may be a false name used by a member of a fraud ring. They are also examining how she was recruited and through which channel she came to work in the household.
With the arrest in Jhalakathi, detectives are now expected to question the suspect over the circumstances of the double murder, her movements before and after the incident, and whether others were involved.
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