In a shocking incident, a mother stabbed her three infant children to death in Ramkrishna Nagar, Karimganj district on Sunday.
The accused woman also grievously injured her younger sister with a sharp weapon and attempted suicide by cutting her veins with the weapon.
The accused woman has been identified as Shahena Afroze.
Shahena, wife of one Shafique Uddin killed her three infant children with a sharpened dagger and attacked her sister Sharmin Begum in a feat of rage.
According to sources, after killing the children, Shahena placed the dead bodies on the bed of the house and then attempted suicide by cutting her veins with the weapon.
An official said that the woman’s husband left for his shop early in the morning leaving her and three children including two boys and a girl at home along with the woman’s sister.
It is learnt that around 9 am when the young boys of the village were taking the cows for grazing, they saw the woman was attacking her children with a chopper. The boys raised a hue and cry after which a crowd of people from the village rushed to the spot.
On receiving the information from the locals of the village, the people rushed to the spot and recovered the blood-soaked bodies of the children as well as the injured younger sister and the alleged accused, and then they sent them to the hospital.
The police upon receiving the information, reached the crime scene and started an investigation.
A senior police officer said, “We have been looking into the different aspects of the incident. However, as of now, we cannot conclude as to why the mother took such an extreme step to kill her children.”
Shahena Afroz was living with her husband Shafiq Uddin, three children and her 7-year-old sister Sharmin Begum.
