Police have recovered the body of a woman from a deep freezer in her residence at Dupchanchia upazila in Bogura district on Sunday.
The discovery was made on Sunday in the Joypurpara area of the upazila.
Umme Salma Khatun, 52, was the wife of SM Azizur Rahman, the deputy principal of Dupchanchia DS Kamil Madrasah and imam of the Upazila Parishad Jame Mosque.
According to police and family members, Azizur Rahman owns a four-story building located beside the Bogura-Naogaon highway. He lived on the third floor with his wife and their youngest son, Sada Bin Azizur Rahman, who is a tenth-grade student. Tenants occupy the other floors of the building. On Sunday morning, around 9:45 AM, Azizur and Sada left for madrasa, leaving Salma alone at home. When Sada returned around 1:30 PM, he found the main gate locked from the outside. Using his own key, he unlocked the gate and discovered the house in disarray. He immediately called his father to inform him of the situation.
Azizur hurried home and began searching for his wife. He noticed that the lid of the deep freezer was slightly ajar. When he opened it, he found his wife's body with her hands and feet tied with ropes.
Salma was rushed to Dupchanchia Upazila Health Complex, where doctors declared her dead.
Azizur Rahman suspects that intruders broke into their home intending to rob it. "It seems that they tried to force my wife to hand over the keys to the cupboard and when she refused, they killed her and hid her body in the freezer," he said. The house was ransacked, with signs of an attempt to break into the cupboard using a sharp weapon, possibly an axe.
Dupchanchia Police Station officer-in-charge Faridul Islam told that the motive and identity of the perpetrators remain unclear.
The victim's body bore marks of injuries inflicted by a sharp weapon. The incident is under investigation, and the body has been sent to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College morgue for autopsy.
