, Dec. 8 -- Police have yet to determine the motive behind the killing of a mother and her daughter at a flat on Shahjahan Road in the capital's Mohammadpur area on Monday morning.

Although wardrobes and a vanity bag inside the flat were found ransacked, police said no significant valuables were missing.

The victims were identified as Malaila Afroze, 48, and her daughter Nafisa Binte Aziz, 15, a ninth-grade student of Mohammadpur Preparatory School. The incident took place at 7/B flat on the seventh floor of a building at 32/2/A Shahjahan Road.

Police suspected that the killings were carried out by the household help, who fled the scene wearing Nafisa's school uniform, carrying a school bag.

Police quoting inmates of the flat said the...