Dhaka: Mahfuza Malek, the mother of the two ill-fated children who were found dead at their residence in Dhaka’s Banasree area on February 29, confessed also before a court here on Sunday to killing her kids.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Nabi recorded her statement when Detective Branch inspector, Lokman Hekim, also the investigation officer of the case,  produced her before the court.

After recording her statement from 11:00am to 1:30pm, the court sent her to jail.

Earlier, Mahfuza had been taken on a 5-day remand twice on March 4 and March 9 respectively.

The two siblings—Nusrat Jahan Urmi, 14, a Class-VII student of Viqarunnisa Noon School, and her younger brother Alvi Aman, 6, a nursery student of Holy Crescent School, were found dead at their home in Banasree area on February 29.

Family sources had claimed that the two kids died after having food taken from a Chinese restaurant.

However, the autopsies, conducted by the forensic department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, found injury marks on the throat of Urmi and on that of Alvi and in his one leg.

During primary interrogation, Mahfuza had also confessed that she herself killed the two children.

Briefing reporters at the Rab headquarters on March 3, its director (media) Mufti Mahmood Khan said Mahfuza Malek during interrogation said she strangulated her daughter and son to death with a scarf as she was worried over their education and future.

The murder case, filed by the father of the two kids, Amanullah, with Rampura Police Station on March 3 against Mahfuza, was transferred to the Detective Branch of police on March 7.