Dhaka, Feb. 28 -- Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her teenage granddaughter from Pabna's Ishwardi Upazila.

The 65-year-old grandmother's bloodied body was found in her home's courtyard on Saturday, while her 15-year-old granddaughter's naked body was discovered in a nearby mustard field, according to Ishwardi Police Station chief OC Mohammad Mominuzzaman.

Police suspect the pair were killed late on Friday night after the grandmother resisted an attempt to abduct the teenager.

"Preliminary investigations suggest that assailants attempted to abduct the granddaughter late at night. When the grandmother intervened, they hacked the elderly woman to death with a sharp weapon. They then took the teenager to the adjacent mustar...