OUR CORRESPONDENT, Jamalpur

The wife of a Rab official was found murdered at their residence in Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur early yesterday.

The incident occurred around 3:30am at Simlabazar. The victim, Lipi Akter, 35, was the wife of ASI Mohor Uddin of Rab-2 in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur.

Quoting the couple’s daughter, Sarishabari Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Bachchu Mia said a group of thieves broke the grille of the veranda and entered the house in the middle of the night. When Lipi saw them, they allegedly strangled her with a scarf.

Their daughter, fifth-grader Mithi Akter, then called her maternal uncle, who rushed to the house with other family members. They took Lipi to the Sarishabari Health Complex, where doctors declared her dead.

Police recovered the body around 11:30am and said it would be sent for autopsy.