DHAKA: A young mother reportedly burnt herself and her two children to death in a bizarre self-immolation in the city’s South Kamalapur area on Thursday noon following family feuds.

Police, quoting some local sources, said Bilashi Begum, 27, along with her daughter Rajani Akhter, 8, and son Raihan, 3, went up the rooftop of their house and committed the triple-suicide.

The duty doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, however, didn’t confirm their death till 4:30 pm though the police and local people claimed that they died instantly.

Almost 80 percent of their bodies were burnt but the duty doctors didn’t clarify their present condition, banglanews24.com.bd staff correspondent Azizul Hakim from DMCH said.
 
From the spot, SI of Motijheel Thana Azizur Rahman told banglanews24.com.bd that Bilashi Begum along with her children went onto the rooftop of No 108 house after locking the house-gate from inside.

“She poured kerosene on their bodies and then ignited themselves,” the police officer quoted locals as saying about the horrendous tragedy, a second one in the capital after the recent Jurain incident of reported suicide by a mother along with her two children—a daughter and a son in this case as well.       

Hearing them shouting, local people broke into the house and sent them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, he added.  

Local sources said they might have committed suicide as she was being tortured by her husband, who married recently a second time.

Both the Kamalapur and Jurain incidents occurred in broken homes following second marriage by the husbands.    
 
BDST: 1618 HRS. AUGUST 05, 2010.