Physician’s stabbed body recovered from flat in capital

Sabira Rahman. Photo: Collected

Police recovered body of a doctor from her house in the city's Kalabagan area yesterday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Kazi Sabira Rahman (47), a physician at Green Life Hospital. Police suspect that she was murdered, as the body bore stab marks with a sharp weapon.

Shahen Shah Mahmud, additional deputy commissioner (New Market Zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said they recovered the body from a flat on the second floor of the building.

Meanwhile, Lima Khanam, duty officer of Fire Service Control Room, said two units of firefighters rushed to the house after being told of fire at the flat around 10:30am.

"The fire was doused before we reached, but the firefighters found a body there. We later handed the body over to police," she said.

Police suspected assailants killed her and set her bed on fire to divert law enforcers' attention.

Kazi Harun-or-Rashid Mridha, uncle of the deceased, "The killers tried to brand it as a death from a fire incident but we think it is a pre-planned murder."

Family members said the doctor's husband, who is separated from, stays in Shantinagar area while their son is preparing to leave for Canada to study.

Sabira's eighth-grader daughter used to live with her sometimes, but she was at her grandmother's house in Green Road during the incident.

Mahbubul Islam, owner of the flat, said he rented out the three-room flat to the doctor in January. The woman then said her children would stay with her as her husband was abroad.

"Today, we came to know that she sublet two of the rooms," he said. Police picked up three persons including caretaker of the house for interrogation.

The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Morgue for autopsy.