A woman and her teenage daughter were found dead in a flat in the capital’s Mohammadpur area on Monday.
The deceased were identified as Malaila Afroz, 48, and her daughter Nafisa Binte Aziz, 15.
Assistant Commissioner (Mohammadpur Zone) of Tejgaon Division under Dhaka Metropolitan Police Md Abdullah Al Mamun said the bodies were recovered from the seventh floor of a building on Shahjahan Road.
He said that, preliminarily, it appears their domestic help might have killed them and fled.
The bodies were sent to a hospital for autopsy. Police are investigating the incident by reviewing nearby CCTV footage, he added.