Injury marks found in Banasree siblings’ bodies

Injury marks were found in the necks and other parts of the bodies of the two siblings who were found dead at home in Dhaka’s Banashree area.

DMCH Forensic department lecturer Prodeep Biswash, who conducted the autopsy of the siblings, said that they found the symptom of suffocating the siblings to death.

He told newsmen that the bodies of Nusrat Jahan Urmi bore an injury mark around her throat while the body of her younger brother Alvi Aman bore injury marks around his throat as well as a leg.

He, however, said they can confirm the reason of the deaths after getting viscera report.

Nusrat Jahan Urmi, 14, a Class-VII student of Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student of Holy Crescent School in Banashree died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday night, hours after they ate food bought from a Chinese restaurant.

Their mother Mahfuza Malek Jesmin said the family brought home leftover food after having dinner on Saturday night at a Chinese restaurant near their Banasree home.

The mother served the rest of the Chinese food to her two children for lunch on Monday while she and her husband had a home-cooked meal.

Both children were whisked off to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after the mother noticed that they were not waking up from an afternoon nap.