An Aussie woman found dead overseas after disappearing for two months had been hospitalised weeks earlier after suffering a miscarriage.
Rehana Parvin, 37, was found dead in Bangladesh in September after travelling there from Queensland with her teenage daughter in June to manage her properties.
It emerged on Sunday that Ms Parvin has been hospitalised after a miscarriage on July 3 and that was the last time her family heard from her.
‘She was four months pregnant,’ her sister Tania Parvin told the ABC.
Rehana was initially treated at Nawabganj Upazila Health Complex and was later transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Nur Mohammad Khan, a police officer investigating her death, said.
The mother-of-five was found buried next to a septic tank on her sister-in-law’s property on September 12.
It was reported in Bangladesh that at the time her body was discovered, much of the the local property she owned with her husband Awlad Hossain was in Ms Parvin’s name.
Mr Hossain, 48, had travelled to Bangladesh on June 29 and returned to Australia on July 13.
There has been a huge twist in the investigation into the murder of an Australian woman Rehana Parvin (pictured) overseas
The assistant superintendent in charge of the investigation said police had applied for an arrest warrant and are pursuing the extradition of Mr Hossain from Australia to Bangladesh.
Ms Parvin had spent a night at her parent’s home before travelling to her in-law’s after travelling to her home country in June.
Her mother reported her missing three days later.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest that Mr Hossain had any involvement in his wife’s death, only that Bangladeshi police have applied for an arrest warrant.
Ms Parvin’s mother Irean Akter said in September she had ‘worked hard to educate my daughter and send her to Australia, where she became a citizen’.
‘My daughter earned and acquired property in Australia,’ she said.
‘I need help, I need proper action,’ Ms Akter said. ‘Rehana had five kids. Five kids lost their mother.’
While there is no extradition treaty between Bangladesh and Australia, there is a mechanism for people to be extradited between Commonwealth countries, which both nations are part of.
Mr Hossain’s sister Papia Akhter and Amzad Hossain, a man from the village where Ms Parvin grew up, were arrested and confessed to having knowledge of Ms Parvin’s disappearance, the local authorities said.
Ms Parvin’s estranged husband Awlad Hossain (pictured) arrived back in Australia on July 13
The police officer Mr Khan said Ms Parvin’s died on July 5 between 8 and 10pm at Papia Akhter’s house, where her body was found more than two months later.
Mr Khan told ABC News that Ms Pavin ‘was killed by… pressing the face with a pillow’.
Ms Parvin and Mr Hossain married in Bangladesh before moving to Australia almost two decades ago.
They owned several properties in the Lockyer Valley in south-east Queensland, and Ms Parvin also owned land near Tara as well as in Bangladesh.
Mr Hossain also owned a home in the Redbank Plains suburb of Ipswich.
The Australian Federal Police said it ‘will provide an update at an appropriate time’.
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