Kusthia, Sept. 26 -- A family dispute allegedly over money has led to the tragic deaths of an elderly man and his young son in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district.

The victims were identified as Shumbhu Charan Biswas, 80, and Bijoy Kumar, 32, a fish seller by profession of Uday Naturia village under Bagulat union of the upazila.

According to the relatives and police, on Thursday afternoon a dispute erupted in the family when son Bijoy spent Tk 9,000 for the Durga Puja shopping without his father's knowledge. The father earned the money by selling a goat.

The father wanted the money back, triggering an argument with the son.

Bijoy at one stage hit his wife Minti with a bamboo stick when she tried to calm him. While trying to save th...