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Woman's body found in launch

3 September 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Barisal

Body of a female passenger, aged about 35, was recovered from a launch cabin at Hular Hut station under Pirojpur district yesterday morning. Pirojpur police suspect that she was murdered after rape. Earlier, authorities of MV Rajdoot-7, the double deck launch plying on Dhaka-Hular Hut route, informed police at about 8:00 am that body of a woman passenger was seen wrapped with bed sheet on the bed of a cabin. Police while recovering the body noticed marks of injury and rape signs in it and sent it to Pirojpur General Hospital for autopsy.