Police yesterday recovered around 16 severed human body parts and 13 bones at Dhaka South City Corporation landfill in Matuail.
They, however, could not say whether criminals dumped those, in four sacks, after killing people or those were from hospitals or anatomy departments of medical schools.
Ragpickers made the grisly discovery around 5:30am, and waste management staff informed the police of the matter.
There were seven legs, three hands and six parts of heads and chests, said Minhajul Islam, senior assistant commissioner (AC) of Demra zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Some of the bones were screwed and wired together.
He said police were suspecting there could be bodies of a man and a woman somewhere in the landfill.
The recovered body parts, which seemed to have been cut with hacksaw blades and had preservatives on them, were first taken to Jatrabari Police Station and later sent to Sir Salimullah Medical College morgue.
According to police, one of the hands had painted nails, suggesting that it might be of a female. They could not say how many people the body parts belonged to.
Samples would be sent to DNA laboratory for identification of the deceased, AC Minhajul added.
Asked from which area the body parts were taken to the landfill, the Jatrabari Police Station’s officer-in-charge (investigation) refused to say anything without completing investigation.
Every night 250-280 garbage trucks dump garbage in that zone, said Abdulla Harun, an assistant engineer at Waste Management Department of Dhaka South City Corporation.
He said the sacks were probably dumped early yesterday or very late into Thursday night as garbage trucks dumped trash in that particular spot after 11:00pm.
A source in charity organisation Anjuman Mofidul Islam said they were the one who usually receive unidentified or unclaimed bodies or parts of bodies from Dhaka Medical College and Sir Salimullah Medical College morgues and that they bury the bodies or parts of bodies in Azimpur or Jurain graveyard.
Saturday 24 August 2013
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