Woman’s body recovered from launch cabin
Police recovered the body of a woman from a cabin of a launch at Barishal Launch Terminal yesterday morning.
The woman was identified as Akhi Aktar, 25, said Md Nurul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station.
The woman had rented a staff cabin of MV-Surovi from Sadarghat in Dhaka; she was travelling with a man, who her father confirmed was not her husband, said the OC.
According to the inquest report, Akhi was strangled to death, he added.
The man was seen in CCTV footage of the launch, but he could not be identified yet, Nurul told The Daily Star.
The body was sent to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Asked whether she might have been raped, the OC said it would be known after autopsy.
A murder case was filed with the police station.
Comments