A woman reportedly committed suicide by consuming poison after killing her one-year-old son in Cumilla on Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as Khaleda Akter, 22, wife of Abu Bakar Siddique, and her one-year-old boy Ismail Hossain.
Local people of Bhagalpur in Daudkandi upazila found Khaleda’s room locked from inside and informed police, the lawmen later recovered the bodies breaking the door open in the morning, said Alamgir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Daudkandi Police Station.
The bodies were sent to Cumilla Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy, UNB reported.
Police suspect that Khaleda fed food laced with poison to her child and then killed herself in absence of her husband Abu Bakar.