Police on Wednesday recovered the remains of one individual from the shade of BM Container Depot in Sitakunda, one month after the devastating fire incident.
With the recovery of the skull and bones the death toll from the inferno rose to 51.
Abul Kalam Azad, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda police station, said a skull and some charred bones of an individual were recovered during the cleaning work in the depot around 1:15pm.
The recovered skull and bones were sent to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital morgue for DNA profiling.
Fifty were killed and over 200 were injured in a fire and subsequent blasts at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda of Chittagong on June 4.
Ten firefighters died in the incident. It is considered to be the largest death toll the Fire Service has suffered in a single incident.