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UNB,Savar

A sexagenarian woman and her granddaughter were hacked to death at Salmasi Kolatia village in Bhakurta union of the upazila Sunday night.

On information, police recovered the bodies of Alefa Begum, 60, wife of late Nawab Ali and her granddaughter Farzana Akter, 9, and sent those to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. The law enforcer also arrested Nabi Hossain, son of Alefa and father of Farzana, in this connection.

Police and local people said Nabi Hossain is a known drug addict and he might have killed his mother and daughter.

Nabi Hossain, however, denying the allegation said he returned home at about 9.30pm and found the bodies lying in a pool of blood. Farzana used to sleep with her grandmother as her mother is in Abu Dhabi for last three years, the sources said.