The quiet of Ashulia’s Narsinghpur neighborhood was pierced by unease on Sunday evening. A rented house, its door shut since morning, stood strangely still. Neighbors wondered, until one caught sight of a chilling scene through the window: a man’s body hanging lifeless inside.
Police rushed in, breaking open the locked door around 7 p.m. What they found was a tableau of horror. Thirty-five-year-old Rubel Ahmed hung from the ceiling, while his wife Sonia Akhter, 28, and their six-year-old daughter Jamila lay motionless on the bed.
Authorities believe the tragedy began with a family quarrel. In its wake, Sonia and Jamila were strangled, and Rubel turned on himself. What had once been a home dissolved into silence, leaving behind only unanswered questions and three bodies bound for Dhaka Medical College Hospital.