Dhaka, Dec. 9 -- Police have opened a murder case after a woman and her teenage daughter were found stabbed to death in their flat in Dhaka's Mohammadpur.

The case was filed on Tuesday by AZM Azizul Islam, the husband and father of the victims, according to Mohammadpur Police Station chief (OC) Mezbah Uddin.

The bodies of Laila Afroze, 48, and her 15-year-old daughter Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziz were discovered inside their seventh-floor flat on Shahjahan Road on Monday. Nafisa was a 9th-grade student at Mohammadpur Preparatory School. Her mother was a homemaker.

OC Mezbah Uddin said a domestic worker has been accused in the case.

"We know her as Ayesha, but we have not yet confirmed whether that is her real name."

Azizul, a physics teac...