Police recovered four bodies, including that of two teenagers, yesterday from different areas of the capital.
The bodies of the teenagers were recovered from an office in the capital’s Mouchak area. The two were employees at MH Technology, housed on the sixth floor of Mouchak Tower.
The deceased are Sohag Hossain, 16, and Nasirul Islam, 14, and worked at the company for several years.
Sohag’s maternal uncle Ripon, who works at the same company, first noticed something was off when he discovered the two young men were not responding from the inside of their office.
He said: “Sohag and Nasirul used to sleep at the office. Around 9am on Friday, I went there to meet my nephew. But the gates were locked from the inside and neither responded to my call.”
Later, he notified the office owner, Masudur Rahman, and at one point, they broke the gates and found the two boys lying scattered on the ground. They then called the police, he added.
On being informed, police, under the leadership of SI Shamsuddin of Ramna police, recovered the bodies and sent them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue around 2pm.
“Primarily we suspect they might have been electrocuted, as police found a live electric wire near the bodies,” he said.
Nasirul’s elder brother Saidul said: “As we had guests over last night, Nasirul went to sleep there. He often slept there.”
He said Nasirul had phoned them around 11:30am on Friday. Later in the morning, locals informed them about the incident.
In the meantime, Ramna police recovered the body of a businessman at a hotel in the capital’s Paltan area.
The hanging body of the deceased, Kamal Uddin alias Shamsuddin Mahbub, 60, was recovered from a room of Capital Hotel on Friday afternoon. He hailed from Rajbari of Lohagora area of Chittagong.
Police recovered the body from room 511 around 12pm after the hotel authorities informed police about the death.
Later, police sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy.
Bibekananda Devnath, sub-inspector of Paltan police station, said Kamal Uddin, a contractor and also an owner of a brick field, was staying at the hotel room since he came to Dhaka from Chittagong on May 3.”
Quoting family members, the OC said: “Shamsuddin was depressed after facing a huge loss and started staying in the capital.”
However, the reasons for either his stay in Dhaka or his death could not be ascertained immediately.
Another unidentified body of a 65-year-old man was found in the city at Kamlapur area. The body was hanging from a tree beside Kamalapur railway mosque.
OC Abdul Majid of railway police station said police were trying to find out the deceased’s identity.
Labourers there first informed the police about the body early yesterday. The body was later sent to DMCH hospital around 11am, he added.