Elderly woman found murdered at house; ornaments, cash looted

The body of a woman was recovered from a house at Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila this afternoon.
According to locals, gold ornaments and cash were looted from the house.
The victim is Shefali Begum, 70, of Sutiakathi village, said Md Boni Amin, officer-in-charge of Nesarabad Police Station.
Shefali lived on the second floor of an incomplete building with her two sons and their families, said locals.
On Tuesday morning, when Shefali was alone at home, miscreants entered the house and tied Shefali with a rope and later killed her. Then, they looted gold ornaments and cash from the house, locals claimed.
Returning from madrasa around 1:00pm, one of her grandchild found her body on the bed and began screaming.
Later, neighbours took her to a local private clinic where duty doctors declared her dead.
Shefali’s son Badal has claimed that the killers looted around eight bhori of gold ornaments and cash worth around Tk 1 lakh from the house.
OC Boni Amin said they are investigating the matter.
Police are trying to identify and arrest the perpetrators, he said.