Man kills wife in Narail over family feud

12 October 2015, Nirapad News: A man in northern Narail district overnight allegedly murdered his wife over a family feud, police said today.

Quoting residents in the neighbourhood police said 40-year old Shakil Miah chopped his 34-year old wife Bithi begum with a big knife during a quarrel over a family matter at their rented house at Gopinathpur village in Lohagara upazila in the district.

“He (Shakil) fled the scene apparently after Bithi’s death,” police superintendent of Narail Sarder Rakibul Islam told newsmen.

The couple has a four-year old son.