Tragic: Woman held for killing twin daughters in Khulna

Dead body

Khulna, Feb 19 A 28-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday morning, a day after her twin daughters were found dead in a pond in Kushla village of Khulna.

Kanij Fatema, wife of Masum Billah of Matarchar village in Khulna's Mollarhat upazila, was nabbed from her parents house in Terokhada upazila. 

She now faces murder charges in the death of her two children, police said.

Enamul Haque, a sub-inspector at Terokhada Police Station, said the couple got married four years back. But when Fatema got pregnant, Masum sent her to her father's house.

Two months ago, the couple was blessed with the twin daughters but Fatema continued to live with her parents. On Friday morning, local people found the bodies of the infants floating in the pond.

During interrogation, police said, Fatema admitted to suffocating her two daughters to death on Thursday night as they had been crying. "Later she had dumped the bodies in the pond," Enamul said. - UNB