One victim identified
One of the two killed in a “shootout” between Rab and reported criminals in the capital's Banashree area on Sunday has been identified.
Shahinur Begum claimed the body, which had a shirt and a pair of jeans on, as that of her husband Abul Kalam Azad at DMCH morgue around 7:00pm yesterday.
The other body remained unclaimed. Azad, a father of three daughters, was a driver by profession and had been missing since December 22, Shahinur told reporters at the morgue.
Two people including Azad had been shot and critically wounded during a "gunfight" with Rab around 2:00am on Sunday. Rab claimed that the duo had shot at law enforcers and they retaliated.
The “criminals” were pronounced dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 4:00am, Rab said.
After performing autopsies yesterday, the bodies were kept at the morgue for identification and subsequent handover.
Azad's sister-in-law Yasmin told The Daily Star a man called to Shahinur's phone from an unknown number and asked her to look for Azad at DMCH.
Yasmin and Shahinur went to the DMCH around 11:00am yesterday. Keeping Shahinur outside the mortuary, Yasmin went into the room but could not identify a body as it became swollen.
Then they contacted Rampura police and came to know that two bodies had been kept at the morgue. This time Shahinur identified one of the bodies as her husband.
"The other body will be preserved at the mortuary for a week for identification,” Prof Md Habibuzzaman Chowdhury, chairman of the Forensic Medicine department of DMCH, told The Daily Star.
"If no one claims the body within this time, we will collect DNA sample of the body and hand it over to Anjuman Mofidul Islam for burial," he said.
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