The Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) correspondent for several media outlets, Awrangjeb Sajib, has been missing since Sunday.
His wife Morsheda Begum fined a general diary about her missing husband with Shahbagh police station yesterday morning, where she mentioned that Sajib left home for work around 7am on Sunday and went missing.
She was then told by an alleged eyewitness named Shakil that Sajib had jumped into the Buriganga River from a launch near Munshiganj around 10:30am on Sunday, leaving his belongings behind.
“As far as I knew, he had no job in Munshiganj that day, so there was no reason for him to go there or to jump into the river,” she told the Dhaka Tribune. Many of Sajib’s colleagues echoed Morsheda’s concerns.
Sub-Inspector Ershad Alam of Chandpur Marine Police said he visited the spot described by Shakil. But locals were not able to verify Shakil’s account.
Additional Superintendent of Marine Police Mokhlesur Rahman said Sajib’s mobile phone call list would be checked to determinine if he had traveled to Munshiganj.
