Police recovered the throat-slit bodies of a woman and her child daughter from a house at Digambar Bazar at Bahabal upazila upazila in Habiganj on Thursday morning.
The deceased were identified as Anjali, 35, wife of Sandwip Das, and their eight-year-old daughter Puja of Lamaputijuri village at the upazila.
Alamgir Kabir, sub-inspector of Bahubal Police Station, said that Sandwip went to Sunamganj on Wednesday for business purpose. He returned from Sunamganj around 6:30 am and found the door of his house open. When he entered his house, he found the throat-slit bodies of his wife and daughter lying in a pool of blood under the bed.
Hearing screams of Sandwip, local people rushed in and informed police.
Police officials including Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Parvez Alam Chowdhury visited the spot.
Quoting Sandwip, police said that Sandwip had conversation with his wife at night three times. Police suspected that miscreants might have killed them after 4:00 am.
However, Amir Ali, a resident of the building, made a phone call to Sandwip and said that thief came to his house and stole a sewing machine from the house. Amir Ali got injured somehow and was undergoing treatment at a local hospital.
Police and Sandwip suspected that Amir Ali might have involved in the incident.