The police recovered the bodies of a couple from their residence on the fifth floor of a building on Hare Street at Wari in Bangladesh capital Dhaka Friday night.
The deceased are Md Muid, 35, son of Md Musa from Araikandi village under Titas upazila in Cumilla and his wife Ayrin Akhter, 32, daughter of Joynal Abedin of Miaji Bari under Chauddagram upazila in the same district.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Wari Division deputy commissioner Harun-or-Rashid said that locals informed the police after the couple hadn鈥檛 opened their door for two days.
Police later broke into the apartment and found the bodies, he said.
鈥淧reliminary evidence suggests that Muid had died earlier as his body had started to decompose while Irene鈥檚 body was still fresh. A note, believed to be written by Irene, was found at the scene,鈥� the DC said.
He said Muid had been suffering from cancer for a long time and had not stepped out of the house for nearly four years.
However, it remains unclear whether it was a case of suicide.
The couple had reportedly been separated from their families since their marriage, which their families did not accept.
The note also requested that their bodies not be sent to their native villages and that they be buried side by side, said Harun-or-Rashid.
Babul Ali, a morgue assistant at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said that police brought the bodies on Friday night and that decomposition suggested the couple had died two to three days earlier.
Whether Ayrin died by suicide will be confirmed once the autopsy report is available, said DC Harun.
