Law enforcers recovered limbs of human bodies wrapped in several sacks at Dhaka City Corporation Garbage Dumping Zone in the capital’s Matuail Mridhabari area on Friday morning. “Initially, we came to know that the sliced body parts were of two men and two women,” Minhazul Islam, assistant commissioner Dhaka Metropolitan (DMP) of Police told The Independent. Police also recovered human skeletons from the site. “Our cleaners found three severed heads and dried up limbs of several human bodies,” Dhaka City Corporation (South)’s Chief Waste Management Officer SM Javed Iqbal said.
The Officer-in-Charge of Jatrabari Police Station Rafiqul Islam said: “The body parts in the plastic sacks have mostly dried up. Apparently it looks like the victims might have been killed at least one month ago.”
All body parts have been sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for forensic test, Islam added.
Assistant engineer of Dhaka City Corporation Waste Management Project ANM Abdullah said: “Every night more than 280 tonnes of garbage loaded in 50 trucks from different areas in the city are dumped at Matuail Project. Our cleaners first found the human body parts and informed us of the matter.”
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Commissioner Minhazul Islam said the body parts in the sacks included legs, heads and some other parts.
He said the parts were of at least two bodies.
But his claim differed with DCC (South) Chief Waste Management Officer SM Javed Iqbal, who said the cleaners found three heads, seven legs and several other dried up parts of human bodies.
Jatrabarhi Police Station Sub-Inspector Muneer, who is present at the scene, said some street children notified the cleaners after finding the sack early on Friday at the DCC dumping station at Matuail’s Mridhabarhi area.
Then Javed Iqbal led the cleaners and checked it out. Then they called the police.
Jatrabarhi police OC Rafiqul Islam said, “The body parts in the plastic sacks have mostly dried up. It looks like they were possibly killed at least a month ago. The sacks with the body parts was thrown in the dumpster later.”
Police could not say anything further on the matter at the moment.
-With The Independent input
