Dhaka, Dec. 10 -- Police say they have arrested Ayesha, who worked as a household aide for a mother and daughter who were murdered in Dhaka's Mohammadpur, from Jhalakathi.

Jewel Rana, additional deputy commissioner of the Mohammadpur Zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said that Ayesha was arrested from Nalchity Upazila.

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. Their throats were slit. Ayesha had worked at their house in Mohammadpur.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Jewel said Ayesha is being brought to Dhaka.

The deceased Laila Afroze was 48 years old, and her daughter, Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziz, was 15.

Nafisa was a n...