Dhaka, Nov. 7 -- A woman struggling in poverty has reportedly strangled her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to death using a rope before dying by suicide in Kushtia's Daulatpur.

The incident is said to have happened around 7pm on Thursday in Insafnagar village in Ramkrishnapur Union.

Police and locals say that 25-year-old local resident Reshma Khatun, the wife of Saudi expatriate Rahidul Islam, had broken down mentally over the past few days due to a financial crisis and family unrest.

On Thursday night, she allegedly killed her daughter Lamia before hanging herself from the ceiling of her house. At one point, neighbours went to the house and called for Reshma. When she did not respond, they looked through the window and saw the hangi...