Two unidentified children have died in separate incidents in the capital. One of the children was abandoned and under treatment at a hospital while the other’s body was found in a graveyard.
Dhanmondi police SI Ripon Kumar Saha said on January 5, a newborn baby was admitted to Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital in Dhanmondi by two persons identifying themselves as its parents, Jashim and Shilpi from Jatrabari.
Sometime after the admission the two disappeared. The child was under care at the hospital and died on Thursday midnight from breathing problems, SI Saha said.
Meanwhile, Bhatara police SI Sridam Chandra Roy said around 8am yesterday locals informed the police that an infant’s dead body was found on the ground at the graveyard in West Nurerchalla.
Police recovered the body and sent it for an autopsy to the Dhaka Medical College morgue. The SI said there were several signs of injury on the body. Police are trying to uncover the infants’ identities.