Dumpyard Shock
Human bones sent for forensic test
Around 16 severed human body parts and 13 bones, found in four sacks at Dhaka South City Corporation landfill in Matuail yesterday, might have been trashed by a medical student studying anatomy.
The body and skeleton parts had probably been treated with preservatives and used by medical college students for studying, said the morgue sources at Sir Salimullah Medical College.
A board of forensic experts at the college would be formed today to conduct forensic tests on the body parts.
Nobody had gone to the morgue until yesterday evening to claim any unidentified bodies.
“The veins of the hands and legs, sticking out of the limbs, could have been preserved for anatomy students,” said a police official of Jatrabari Police Station, wishing anonymity.
He added that the details would be available once the forensic tests were completed.
A forensic expert speaking to The Daily Star, however, doubted the possibility.
The body parts or skeletons used for academic purposes are usually processed in a very careful way, they said, so that they are without cuts or scratches, but these have hacksaw cuts in them.
They mentioned that anatomy students either sell the skeleton or keep it with them for a lifetime, instead of trashing them when their studies are finished.
Meanwhile, police are yet to confirm the area from where the sacks were brought and dumped into the landfill.
Every night, 250-280 garbage trucks dump their loads in that zone, said Abdulla Harun, an assistant engineer at Waste Management Department of Dhaka South City Corporation.
He added the sacks had probably been dumped on late Thursday or early Friday, as garbage trucks usually dump trash in that particular spot after 11:00pm.
-With The Daily Star input
