STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Police are yet to identify any suspects 48 hours after a 68-year-old schoolteacher was killed with a hammer in her rented flat in the capital’s Pallabi.

Police recovered the bloodstained body of Firoza Khanom Josna, a teacher at Holy Crescent Ideal School, on Friday afternoon.

The inquest report, prepared after an autopsy at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital morgue, noted severe injury marks on the left side of her head, as well as on her nose and eyes.

Police also recovered a blood-stained hammer at the crime scene, which they believe had been used in the killing.

Firoza had been living alone for 10 to 12 years in a rented room on the first floor of a six-storey building on Road 8, Block D, Section 12 in Mirpur, her brother Nazmul Azam told The Daily Star.

She hailed from Krishnapur She

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