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BSS, Mymensingh

A six-year-old baby girl Jesmin was strangulated to death allegedly by her aunt Bilkis Akhter at village Digarkanda in Baira Union in Sadar upazila here on Thursday afternoon.

Jesmin, a pre-primary student of a local BRAC School and daughter of Bachhu Miah and Khodeja Begum of Digarkanda, was strangulated to death following a trifling incident

Police said, following a trifling incident took place yesterday between Khodeja and Bilkis, mother and aunt of Jesmin.

Annoyed with the incident, Mosharraf Hossain, punched his wife Bilkis that angered Bilkis to take revenge on Khodeja. Later, in the last afternoon when rain started, Bilkis called Jesmin to her house and allegedly strangulated her by pushing cloth into her mouth and binding rope around her neck.

Bilkis, then kept the kid's body under the mud of her house and put firewood on the top of the digging earth in order to conceal it

As Jesmin was missing after the incident and despite of a massive search she was not found till 10 PM last night, Khodeja suspected Bilkis that she might have killed her daughter. The house of Bilkis was then found under lock and key and she went out of her house.

Suspicion on Bilkis was raised with the passage of time and other members of the family searched the house of Bilkis and at one stage they found the body of Jesmin under the earth of her house. Family members caught Bilkis and informed the local Union Parishad Chairman.

A police team led Assistant Police Superintendent of Kotwali Police Station Apple Mahmud rushed to the spot and nabed Bilkis. Apple Mahmud told BSS that Bilkis confessed her involvement in the killing following a quarrel with her sister-in-law.

The body was sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) morgue for autopsy. A case was lodged in this regard.