Detectives have arrested the chairman and the managing director of a cleaning and pest control service over the deaths of two young brothers in Dhaka’s Bashundhara residential area.
A team of the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) apprehended Chairman Farhad and MD Ashraf of the company on Thursday.
Confirming the matter, DMP Deputy Commissioner (DB - Lalbag Division) Mashiur Rahman said the detectives conducted drives in Tangail and Brahmanbaria and arrested the two. “They are being brought to Dhaka.”
The police on Monday night arrested Titu Molla, an employee of the pesticide company, over the death of two siblings due to poisoning. Mubarak Hossain Tushar, father of the children, filed a case against three people on Monday.
According to the police and the family, Tushar, a businessman, assigned a pest control company to remove insects from his house in the Bashundhara residential area on Friday.
Later, the employees of that company sprayed insecticides and asked the family members to enter the house after two to three hours. Though the family entered the house nine hours later, they fell sick after inhaling the pesticides.
They were rushed to a private hospital where Shahir Mobarat Zayan, 9, died on Sunday morning and Shayan Mobarat Zahin, 15, died at 10pm on the same day.
