Dhaka: A retired schoolteacher, his wife, daughter and son were found dead inside their locked residence in Rangpur.
Police suspect that the family may have been strangled.
According to Nazmul Kader, officer-in-charge of Rangpur Metropolitan Kotwali police station, the bodies were recovered around 11.30 pm on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as 65-year-old retired Rangpur Zilla School teacher Ganapati Chakraborty, his wife Pritilata Chakraborty (50), their daughter Agami Chakraborty Prarthi (23) and son Priyam Chakraborty (12).
The bodies of Pritilata and Agami were found on the staircase, Ganapati’s body was recovered from the roof and Priyam’s underneath a bed.
“Our initial suspicion is that they were strangled,” Subir Chowdhury, in-charge of Rangpur Metropolitan CID, told The Daily Star.
Police believe that the quartet may have been killed sometime between midnight on Thursday and early Friday.
The family’s relatives said mobile phones of all four were switched off since Thursday night.
When police arrived, they found the main gate locked and all lights switched off. They had to break open the lock to enter the house.
Ganapati, who retired on December 31, had built a three-storeyed house in the area, the construction of which was not fully complete. The family had been living there for over three years.
Police, CID and Detective Branch teams are conducting a joint investigation into the deaths with utmost priority, Rangpur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mabud said.
Cops said the exact cause of death will be clear after the autopsy reports are received.