Law enforcers are yet to make any breakthrough into the recovery of 29 human body parts including skeletal parts from Dhaka South City Corporation’s landfill in Matuail on Friday.
“We still do not know how many bodies were in the sacks. There could have been three, four or five. At first, we have to find out the number of bodies, their age and sex,” Abani Shangkar, Jatrabari police Inspector, said Saturday.
“So, there is no option except DNA test,” said the police official and added that the report of the test, which is being conducted at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), would take at least a week to reach their hands.
Jatrabari police sub inspector, Monir Hossain, filed a case against unidentified killers in this connection.
An insider said the law enforcers were trying to find out how the bodies got to the landfill site and when they were taken there. They have already interrogated a number of city corporation staff, drivers of dump trucks and street children.
However, the police officials declined to disclose the number of people questioned for the sake of investigation.
They added that they were trying to find out whether the body parts found in the four sacks were dumped by criminals after murder or whether they were from hospitals or anatomy departments of medical schools.
Rag-pickers at the dump site found the grisly collection of seven legs, three hands, six partial heads and chests in four plastic sacks on Friday around 5:30am. Some of the bones were screwed and wired together. The waste management staff called the police in the morning.
On Friday police said, they were suspecting there could be bodies of a man and a woman somewhere in the landfill.
The recovered body parts were chopped with hacksaw blade. One of the hands had painted nails, suggesting that it might be of a female.
Every night 250-280 trucks dump garbage in Matuail Landfil. Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Detective Branch (DB) of police are also investigating the case.
