A mother was arrested for allegedly killing her 12-day-old twins by throwing them into a well in Jashore`s Keshabpur upazila in sequel to confrontation with husband.
The incident took place on Tuesday night following a family dispute near the new mosque in Sahapara area of Keshabpur, police said.
They arrested 27-year-old Sultana Yasmin for her alleged involvement in the murder.
Police recovered the bodies of the twins from the well at around on Wednesday morning.
Sultana Yasmin married to Abu Bakar Siddique on April 24, 2021. Then she learnt that her husband had a relation with another woman. They had been living at her father Abdul Latif`s house in Sahapara of the municipality. She gave birth to twins at a clinic Jashore city on November 10 last.
They had been living at her father Abdul Latif`s house in Sahapara of the municipality.
She along with her family members were brought to the police station for interrogation on Wednesday morning after Sultana called the police through her family members, saying that her twins went missing.
Later, during the interrogation, Sultana confessed to throwing her children, Araf and Tasneem, into the well in front of the house at around 1:30am on Wednesday, said Mohammad Zahirul Alam, officer-in-charge of Keshabpur Police Station .
She confessed to throwing them in the water after a family dispute with her husband, said OC Zahirul.
A case has been filed with Keshabpur police station in this regard.
Jashore additional police super Belal Hosayn said Sultana admitted that she killed her own children throwing them into a well as she had been suffering serious mental depression in sequel to her conflict with her husband.
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