Narayanganj Correspondent: Friday, Sept-10,
The Crime Investigation
Department (CID) of police Thursday recovered more human remains from Narayanganj's
Hashem Food and Beverage Factory premises.
The investigators found
the remains of at least one individual – a skull and some bones – from the
fourth floor of the factory building, only two days after discovering charred
skull and bones from the same spot.
The remains would be
sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for DNA profiling, said CID's Assistant
Superintendent of Police Harun-Ur-Rashid.
Tuesday, as the Fire
Service and CID investigated the ruins at the request of the family members of
Laboni, Sazzad and Mohiuddin – who have been missing since the fire – they
recovered skull and bones from the same floor of the building. Those were later
sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for DNA testing, he added. "The
human remains could not be identified yet."
On July 8, at least 52
workers were killed in the fire that broke out at the six-storey building of
Hashem Food in Karnagop of Narayanganj's Rupganj.
Of the victims, at
least 49 workers were burned to death. The CID identified 47 of them after DNA
tests.
On July 10, Nazim
Uddin, officer-in-charge of Bhulta outpost in Rupganj, filed a case against
eight persons, including factory chairman MA Hashem, and accusing several other
unnamed people. Later the CID was tasked with the investigation of the case.
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