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| 'Deranged' man decapitates young woman |
| 2008-10-24 |
| A young man beheaded an apprentice female lawyer and injured three others in broad daylight at a Segunbagicha house in the capital yesterday. Locals beat up Mohammad Amin, 32, after the killing before handing him over to the police. He was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) under police custody. The deceased was identified as Nasrin Akter Tuli, 28, daughter of Rashid Uddin of Dakkhin Kuttapara village under Sarail upazila in Brahmanbaria district. She was living as a sub-let tenant in the same house that Amin lived in for the past three months. She had been practising in the judge court under a senior lawyer. Amin admitted to the murder saying that he decided to kill his wife, as he was convinced that an evil spirit has taken over her soul. Amin said that he left the house three days ago after a quarrel with his wife and spent this time visiting different shrines in the city. Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, he said, "I returned home early in the morning and snatched away a machete from a coconut vendor on the way to kill my wife with it." He claimed that when he entered the house and couldn't find his wife, he found Tuli having breakfast and thought that his wife had taken 'Tuli's form'. So he hacked her with the machete and dragged her out to the stairway-landing before decapitating her. The house in question is sub-let to around 20 inhabitants. Eye-witnesses said that Amin tried to hack anyone who fell on his way. He also struck at the furniture in the flat as he looked for his wife. Fatema, a neighbour who lived in the opposite flat and witnessed the brutal killing, told The Daily Star, "I locked my door when I heard the screams. Then through the peeping hole I saw Amin hack Tuli on the stairway-landing in front of my door. He then beheaded her and then ran out to the streets with the head still dangling from his hand." Another neighbour Nur Jahan, 30, said she ran up to the second floor on hearing the screams around 8:15am and found Amin looking for his wife with the machete in his hand. "He attacked us as his mother and I tried to stop him to calm him down," she said. A tenant of the house, rickshaw-puller Nur Islam, 40, also tried to stop Amin and was stabbed by him. All three injured were admitted to DMCH with stab wounds. Amin worked in Saudi Arabia for six years till 2007. He got married a year and a half ago and had been living in the shared flat with his wife, parents, two sisters and a brother. Tuli's devastated brother Salauddin Khan Pappu said, "Tuli was unwilling to get married until she completed her apprenticeship. She always said that she wanted to work for deprived women and help establish their rights." Rezaul Karim, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh police, told The Daily Star, "We are investigating the incident to find out if the man is deranged or a mental patient or if there is any other cause behind the brutality." Meanwhile, Bangladesh Women Lawyers Association in a press release expressed concern over the killing of the apprentice lawyer. |
| Posted by:Fred |