A fire in the house of an expatriate has led to the death of a woman and three of her daughters at Tangail’s Mirzapur.
Police say they suspect that the house was set on fire by sprinkling petrol after a proposal for marriage was spurned.
One suspect has already been picked up by police.
Tangail (South)’s Additional Superintendent of Police Pankaj Chandra Roy said the house of expatriate Majibur Rahman went up in flames at Sohagpara area early on Tuesday.
His wife Hasna Begum, 30, and three daughters — ‘Mariam’, 18, ‘Mili’, 4, and ‘Meem’, 6 — were burnt to death.
“After 3am, some miscreants poured petrol into the house through the windows and set it alight. The fire spread quickly and all four were burnt alive,” Roy said.
He said neighbour Baharuddin’s son Jahangir had been proposing to marry Majib’s eldest daughter Mariam for a while.
“After the marriage proposal was rejected, we feel angry members of Jahangir’s family may have set fire to the house.”
Two petrol containers were recovered from the spot.
A suspect Ali Hossain has been nabbed. He is a rickshaw-puller by profession.
Hossain has confessed that he was paid TK 200 to fetch two containers of petrol and did deliver them to Jahangir’s house, said Roy.
The entire family of Jahangir is absconding.
The dead bodies have been kept at Mirzapur’s Kumudini hospital for an autopsy.
Source: Bd news24
