Police yesterday recovered the bodies of five persons from as many districts.
According to our correspondent, the Prothom Alo Faridpur correspondent’s wife was found dead at their house at Jheeltuli area of Sadar upazila in the morning. Joyonti Sarker, 38, the wife of journalist Panna Bala, was also mother to a 10 year old daughter.
Panna Bala told local journalists that his wife had gone to sleep alone in a separate room after quarreling with him on Thursday night. She was found dead around 7:30am on the morning of the next day.
Police were called in and they recovered the body.
Sub-Inspector Kazi Masud Rana told Dhaka Tribune that they had discovered a suspicious red spot on her throat and she was found seated on a chair with a rope around her neck.
The body was sent to a hospital for an autopsy.
According to our Munshiganj correspondent, the body of an unknown person was recovered yesterday from the Dhaka-Mawa highway of Srinagar upazila.
Srinagar police station Sub-Inspector Mostafizur Rahman said they recovered the body from the Purbosomoshpur point of the highway around 11am. The deceased was around 45 years of age. Mostafizur said they were primarily assuming that the man might have died after a vehicle hit him sometime in the night.
Our Habiganj correspondent reports that a young boy drowned when he went to take bath at the Khoai River in Habiganj.
The incident took place at the Masulia point of the river in the district town, around midday yesterday.
The deceased was Khalil Mia, the son of Hirai Mia of Purbo Mahmudabad village. Quoting police, witnesses said Khalil and his father went to cut grass for cattle on the banks of the river. At one stage, he went down the river to take a bath and went missing.
Police and fire service men failed to locate the body and recover it.
Later, divers were informed and they were able to recover the body.
Habiganj Sadar model police station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Nazim Uddin confirmed the incident and said the body had already been taken to a hospital for an autopsy.
Our Chandpur correspondent reports that police recovered the body of a 30-year-old man yesterday from the Mohamaya Bazar point of Chandpur-Comilla highway.
The deceased was Hanif Gazi, the son of late Halim Gazi, from Hossainpur village of Sadar upazila.
He used to work as a burnisher at different furniture shops in the upazila’s Baburhat Bazar.
Sadar model police station Sub-Inspector Rajib Ahsan said they assumed that Hanif Gazi had died from drug overdose.
The body was sent to a hospital for an autopsy.