Police say a man has stabbed his wife and mother-in-law to death in Dhaka’s Kalabagan.

Kalabagan Police Station chief (OC) Fazle Ashiq said that Hridoy aka Shipon stabbed his wife and mother-in-law over a "domestic dispute" around 9am on Sunday.

Police have arrested Shipon.

"A man named Shipon stabbed his wife and mother-in-law to death," OC Ashiq said.

Shipon attacked them after Firoza, his mother-in-law, became involved at one point in an argument between the couple, the police official said.