Mother, son found dead in Kushtia
It was initially suspected that the mother-son duo was suffocated to death.
Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her son from their house at Sonaikandi village in Doulatpur upazila of Kushtia today.
The deceased are Sanowra Khatun, 55, and her son Raj, 8.
Jamirul Islam Babu, local union parishad chairman, said unidentified miscreants strangled divorcee Sanowra and her minor boy to death at the night.
Being informed by locals, police recovered the bodies from separate rooms of the house at 10am today, he added.
SM Arifur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Doulatpur Police Station, said, "We rushed to the house immediately after receiving news of the murder and found them dead in two different rooms."
It was initially suspected that the mother-son duo was suffocated to death.
However, the actual cause of the death is being investigated and efforts are underway to detain the perpetrators.