The body of an unidentified woman was recovered by police yesterday in Uttara.
The woman’s body was found in a sack behind a house in Uttara’s sector 14, around 12:30pm. Locals had told the police that the sack was giving off a foul smell.
The victim had not been identified by the time this story was filed. Police said the woman was aged between 25-30 years.
Sub-Inspector Firoz Alam of Uttara West police station said the body was cut into two pieces, and that the sack might have been dumped 4-5 days ago, since the body was in a badly decomposed state.
He said: “She was wearing a blue sweater but the lower half of her body had no cloths. The killers put the lower part in a sack and the upper portion in another. Both the sacks were placed inside another big sack.”
Firoz said the victim had a black mark on her throat.
“We are investigating the incident and trying to find out her identity,” he added.
The body has been sent to the Dhaka Medical College for autopsy.