Mysterious death of 2 siblings

Two siblings died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital last night, hours after they ate food bought from a Chinese restaurant at Banasree in the city's Rampura. 

Family sources said Nusrat Jahan, 14, a seventh grader at Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, and Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student at Holly Crescent School, along with their parents had their dinner at the restaurant on Sunday night. They brought the leftover food home and kept it refrigerated.

Yesterday afternoon, Jasmine Begum served the food to her children and asked them to go to sleep.

Around 5:30pm, the two were found lying unconscious on the bed. Family members whisked them off to a local clinic and later to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 7:30pm where doctors declared the siblings dead.

Rampura police visited the apartment of businessman Md Amanullah, the victims' father, on the fourth floor of a six-storey building at Block B of Banasree.

The bodies were kept at the DMCH mortuary. Autopsies will be carried out on those at Dhaka Medical College today.