Japanese Woman
Death still shrouded in mystery
The body of Japanese national Kazuko Uful, who died on October 18 mysteriously, was taken to the capital’s Apollo Hospitals mortuary yesterday after autopsy at Dhaka Medical College Morgue.
Police are yet to know the reason behind the death but morgue sources said it could be a suicide.
Mohammad Musa, husband of the Japanese woman, on October 15 took his wife to Apollo Hospitals where she expired on October 18.
Kazuko’s mother Nariko and aunt Zumko reached the city early yesterday. They visited the morgue around 2:00am.
Morgue sources said Musa and his brother Mohammad Sayed had accompanied the two women. They allowed Nariko and Zumko for around 15 minutes to stay at the morgue and then took away the two women.
Musa’s brother took the body to the mortuary.
Musa and his family members didn’t allow reporters at their Marium Tower residence in Gulshan area despite repeated attempts yesterday for two hours from 6:30pm.
They couldn’t be reached over phone. Whereabouts of the two women were also unknown.
A security guard at the Gulshan residence said last night that they had seen the two Japanese women going out from the house earlier in the evening.
A high official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Gulshan zone said Musa informed them yesterday evening that Nariko and Zumko were at the Gulshan house.
The DMP official also said they didn’t interrogate any person in this connection as they were waiting for the autopsy report.
According to a DMP official, Musa and Kazuko got married some 16 years ago in Japan and had been living in Bangladesh for two and a half years. Musa, hailing from Comilla, is a businessman.
Police said Musa had informed them that Nariko was trying to take the body to Japan.
