Murder in Dhaka

Burn mark, previous theft record helped police identify Ayesha: DMP

Double murder suspect allegedly attacked mother and daughter over Tk 2,000 theft

Double murder: Suspect domestic worker held in Jhalakathi

House help Ayesha planned to steal valuables from the house in Mohammadpur and after working for three days, she carried a sharp knife with her, intending to use it if anyone noticed.

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Mohammadpur double murder renews focus on recruitment practices

The knife she brought and the murders that followed

Suspect Ayesha told the family she had neither a phone nor an NID

No mobile, broken CCTVs: Police struggle to trace Mohammadpur double murder accused

Lack of digital footprint add to challenges in solving the murders

House help sued over Mohammadpur double murder

Husband files case as police, Rab, DB hunt suspect who worked only four days

Mohammadpur double murder: Mother had 30 stab wounds, daughter had at least 6

‘Didn’t recognise her in a school uniform’: Building manager recounts moment suspect walked out

Mother, daughter stabbed to death in Mohammadpur flat

House help who joined four days ago caught on CCTV leaving the apartment in school uniform

Two arrested over broad-daylight killing of ‘top criminal’ Mamun in Old Dhaka

Investigators say duo went to Sylhet region to cross the border just after the killing

December 8, 2025
December 8, 2025

Mohammadpur double murder: Mother had 30 stab wounds, daughter had at least 6

‘Didn’t recognise her in a school uniform’: Building manager recounts moment suspect walked out

December 8, 2025
December 8, 2025

Mother, daughter stabbed to death in Mohammadpur flat

House help who joined four days ago caught on CCTV leaving the apartment in school uniform

November 11, 2025
November 11, 2025

Two arrested over broad-daylight killing of ‘top criminal’ Mamun in Old Dhaka

Investigators say duo went to Sylhet region to cross the border just after the killing

November 10, 2025
November 10, 2025

Top-listed criminal shot dead in broad daylight in Dhaka’s Sutrapur: police

Mamun, 55, gunned down near hospital; police said he narrowly escaped an attack in 2023

May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025

Crime wave sparks fear in city dwellers

Several recent mugging incidents, some taking place in broad daylight, have also rattled residents

October 15, 2019
October 15, 2019

Youth kills cousin, stabs 2 others in Uttarkhan

A teenager has been killed and two of his older brothers were injured after their cousin stabbed them at their house in Uttarkhan area of the capital last night.

September 2, 2019
September 2, 2019

8 teens held for murdering boy in Dhaka

Police claims to have arrested eight teenage boys in connection with murder of a 16-year-old boy in Dhaka’s Lalbagh area on Thursday.

August 24, 2019
August 24, 2019

Man beaten dead by ‘wife’ in Dhaka

A woman allegedly beat her husband to death with a cricket bat over family feud in Dhaka’s Kafrul area.

July 20, 2019
July 20, 2019

Mob kills 2 suspecting them to be child kidnappers in Dhaka, Narayanganj

Angry mobs beat two unidentified people to death suspecting them as child kidnappers in separate incidents at Dhaka and Narayanganj.

February 17, 2018
February 17, 2018

Banani murder suspect ‘murders’ again, gets caught

A suspect in last year’s Banani manpower businessman murder is caught by locals and handed over to police while he was fleeing away after reportedly killing another man in Dhaka’s Badda area.