Chattogram, Nov. 14 -- Police and Fire Service personnel recovered the bodies of a man and his seven-month-old twin daughters from his father-in-law's house in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram on Friday afternoon.

The deceased were identified as Md. Zahed, 55, son of late Badiul Alam, a former acting chairman of Banshkhali Upazila Parishad, and his seven-month-old twin daughters, Jasia Jannat and Jarin Jannat.

Police said Zahed's body was found hanging from a concrete pillar, while the infants' bodies were recovered from a bed inside their locked home in Puichhari union.

The victim's wife, Afia Begum, said she left the babies home with Zahed around noon to attend a prayer at a local mosque.

Returning in the afternoon, the family found...