Staff Reporter :
Police recovered two bodies from inside a car parked in the basement of Sirajul Islam Medical College in city’s Mouchak.
The deceased persons have been identified as Zakir and Mizan, both from Chatkhil upazila in Noakhali district. They had come to Dhaka to take a patient back home from the hospital.
Both men were around 40 years old. Their bodies were recovered from the car around noon on Monday. Swelling was visible on different parts of their bodies. Masud Alam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Ramna Division confirmed the matter to the media and said that security guards of the building discovered the bodies around 11:45am on Monday. They found the bodies inside a white private car and alerted Ramna Police Station.
We have not yet confirmed whether they were murdered or died due to some other cause, he added.
Hospital sources said that the car entered the garage at 5:35am on Sunday. Since then, it had been parked in a corner on the third basement level (underground).
Mizanur Rahman, the security in-charge of Sirajul Islam Medical College, told the media that he went to check if there were any vacant parking spots on the third basement level around 12 noon on Monday. There, he saw two people inside the car. After calling out to them several times from outside without getting any response, he opened the door-and found that both were dead.
Mizanur added that one of the men was in the driver’s seat, and the other was in the seat behind the driver. The driver’s seat was reclined backward.
After the discovery, the hospital authorities informed the police.
Police stated that among the deceased, Zakir was the driver of the car and Mizan was his relative.
“We have identified the owner of the car. The owner, Sourav, is from Chatkhil in Noakhali, which is also the home area of both deceased individuals. Preliminary information suggests they had come to the hospital to pick up a patient, DC Masud Alam said.
The forensic team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) visited the scene and collected evidence, the deputy commissioner added. He said that the bodies have been sent to Dhaka Medical College for post-mortem examination. “Further details will be available after the investigation is complete,” he said.
