A woman tried to kill herself hanging from the ceiling allegedly after killing her four-year-old son at her house at Laharkandi village in Sadar upazila of Laxmipur district Sunday midnight.
The deceased was identified as Ayan Rahman, son of Ajgar Rahman, an expatriate.
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Quoting local people, Jashim Uddin, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said Sabina Yasmin along with her son Ayan used to live at the rented house of one Hafiz Kha as her husband is a Saudi expatriate.
The couple used to fight over family issues over phone.
At one stage of altercation on Sunday night, Sabina took her son to her room and locked it.
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Hearing sound of groaning from the room, local people, her father-in-law and brother-in-law broke open the room and found Sabina trying to hang herself from the ceiling of the house with a scarf.
They also found Ayan’s slaughtered body on the bed.
On information, police recovered the body and sent it to a local hospital morgue for autopsy.