One of the bodies from Saturday’s fire at the BM Container Depot may be that of a Rohingya refugee from the Balukhali camp in Ukhiya, sources at Chittagong CID told Dhaka Tribune on Tuesday.
The body was being kept at the morgue of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).
It is suspected that the Rohingya man concealed his identity to work at the depot. The information was gleaned by dialling a phone found in the deceased’s pocket and is yet to be verified, the CID sources said on condition of anonymity.
According to several volunteers of Gausia Committee Bangladesh, an organisation that has been providing volunteer support with DNA sample collection since early Monday, two people came to claim the dead body saying they hailed from Sylhet. However, the body was yet to be released as its identity had not been confirmed yet.
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Md Shahnewaz Khaled, Chittagong CID senior superintendent of police, told Dhaka Tribune he was not aware of the matter.
“We are only doing DNA profiling of the relatives of missing people. We are not doing any identification right now,” he said.
Chittagong Police Detective Branch Inspector Keshab Chakraborty, who is looking after security at CMCH, said the police had not received any queries from the families of any Rohingyas.
