Two found dead in city bus counter

Two men were found dead, one with the throat slit and another strangled, in the waiting room of a bus company at Arambagh in Dhaka early Tuesday.
On of the deceased was Ilias Hossain alias Kanchan, 25, an employee of the bus operator Saudia S Alam, located in the Eden Complex at Arambagh. The other was SMA Sufian, 30, a businessman of mobiles of Gulistan.
Witnesses said the police had recovered the bodies from the ticket counter of the bus operator about 7:30am where the bodies were found lying on the floor.
The Motijheel police officer-in-charge, Tofazzal Hossain, told New Age, ‘We recovered the bodies by breaking into the ticket counter that is used by Saudia S Alam transport agency. We found the bodies in a pool of blood as the throat of Ilias was slit and the body of Sufian was tied with a piece of cloth.’
The police also found the national identity card of Sufian in his pocket. He was a resident of resident of 14/1, Kha/11, Haji Osman Ghani Road in Old Town of Dhaka.
Ilias’s elder brother Mohammad Kamal told New Age, ‘Ilias joined Saudia S Alam three months ago. He used to stay inside the counter at night.’
Ilias’s uncle Abdul Kader said, ‘I went to the counter to call Ilias about 7:00am as none responded as I knocked on the gate. At that point I saw that the door had been locked from outside. Then I informed the police of the matter.’
Kader, also a driver of the bus company, said Ilias had enmity with nobody.
An employee of another ticket counter near by, Milon Ahmed, said the shutter of Saudia S Alam office remained open till 3:00am. ‘I saw some young men were roaming around about 3:00am,’ he said.
A ticket counter official, Mohammad Hanif, said,
‘I left for home about 2:00am leaving Ilias and two passengers at the counter. But when I, along with Kamal, came back in the morning, we found the main gate locked from outside.’
‘As nobody made any response from inside, we informed the police of the matter,’ he said. The police then broke into the counter and found them dead, he said.
He said nothing had been stolen from the counter and the police were trying to get to information on the two passengers who were there early in the day.
The bodies were sent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations.
Rajab Ali, a businessman of mobile at Gulistan, who went to the morgue to see the body of Sufian said Sufian had a shop of mobile accessories ion the Gulistan Sundarban Square Market.
Sufian was from Batakandi at Senbag in Noakhali.
A case was filed with the Motijheel police in this connection.

Courtesy of NewAgebd