Dhaka, May 12 -- year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of his two aunts in Dhaka's Shewrapara area, police said on Monday afternoon.

The boy, identified as Rabbani Khan alias Taj, was picked up from his maternal grandfather's house in Ashiar Gagan under Jhalakathi Sadar on Sunday, following a tip-off, said Joint Commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Nasirul Islam, at a press briefing.

The victims were identified as Mariam Begum and Sufia Begum.

Briefing reporters at the DMP media centre on Monday afternoon, Nasirul said, Taj left his rented house in Shanir Akhra at around 12:00 pm saying his mother that he was going for private tuition. Instead, he went to his elder aunt Maria...