A mother has allegedly committed suicide by strangling her two children with a pillow at Komalpur village, in Dumuria upazila of Khulna district.
The tragic incident occurred on Saturday (Jan 27) around 2 pm, said Khulna’s Additional Superintendent of Police Asif Iqbal.
The deceased were identified as Doly Begum, 38, wife of Mannan Sarder, a resident of Kamalpur village in the upazila, and her two children---six-year-old daughter Fatema and seven-month-old son Omar.
Following this horrifying act, she committed suicide by hanging herself at home.
Upon receiving the information, the police went to the scene, recovered the bodies, and transported them to the Dumuria Upazila Health Complex.
Officer in-charge of Dumuria Police Station Sukanta Saha said being informed police recovered the bodies and sent those to a morgue for autopsy.
He said police suspected that Doly might have killed her children before committing suicide between 8am and 11am over family feud.
