Police have recovered the throat-slit bodies of a 50-year-old woman and her daughter from a house at Gobindapur in Melandah upazila of Jamalpur district.
The deceased were identified as Joyful Bewa, wife of Akmal Hossain and her daughter Swapna Begum, 30 of the village.
MM Moynul Islam, officer-in-charge of Melandah Police Station, said Joyful used to live with her daughter, who got divorced from her husband, at the house.
On Saturday evening, local people found their bodies lying in a pool of blood and informed police.
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On information, police recovered the bodies around 7:30 pm on and sent those to Jamalpur General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
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The reason behind the killing could not be known immediately.
Miscreants might have killed them over previous enmity, said the OC.