Police recovered the throat-slit bodies of five members of a family including a woman and her three children, at Rahatkhana in Kapashia upazila of Gazipur district early Saturday.
The deceased were identified as Sharmin, wife of Forkan Mia of Meri Gopinathpur village in Gopalganj, her three daughters, Mim Khanam, Umme Habiba alias Maria, Faria (one and a half years old), and Rasul Molla, son of Shahadat Hossain Molla and younger brother of the deceased Sharmin.
All of them hailed from Gopalganj and used to live at a rented house in the area.
Mohammad Shahinur Alam, Officer-in-Charge of Kapashia Police Station, said Forkan might have killed his wife, children and his brother-in-law sometime at night and fled the scene.
Police recovered the bodies and sent them to a local hospital morgue for autopsy.
MSH