
The deceased were identified as Afroza Afrin, 26, wife of Anwar Hossain, an NGO official and their 16th-month-old baby girl Atkia Ayesha.
Rafiqul Islam, a sub-inspector of Fatikchhari Police Station, said getting no sound from inside the house of Anwar local people informed the matter to police.
Being informed, police recovered the hanging body of Afroza from the building named ‘Kamal Bhaban’ located beside Chattogram-Khagrachhari road, breaking open the door of a room of the house around 12:30 pm.
Later, police also recovered the body of the baby girl lying on the bed and sent those to a local hospital morgue for autopsy.
Police suspected that the woman might have strangled her daughter with a pillow and then hanged herself from the ceiling of the house, reports UNB.
Kamal Uddin, father-in-law of Afroza, said that his daughter-in-law was a mentally retarded woman.