Bodies of driver, helper recovered, rice-laden truck still missing

10 January 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

The decomposed bodies of two youths recovered from Banani on Sunday were identified yesterday as Nurul Islam, 32, a truck driver, and Mithu, 30, the helper. Police recovered the bodies from a ditch near Dhaka Gate at Banani on Sunday. The hands and legs of the bodies were tied with ropes. The miscreants killed the two and hijacked their rice-laden truck. Nurul Islam's brother Feroz told reporters at Dhaka Medical College (DMC) morgue on January 2 that Islam and Mithu left Mohadevpur in Naogaon carrying rice in their truck for Mohammadpur Krishi Market in the capital. They had been missing since then. Feroz identified the bodies at DMC morgue yesterday. The rice-laden truck is still traceless. Gulshan Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Kamal Uddin told this correspondent that police suspect that the miscreants dumped the bodies at Banani after killing the two youths elsewhere.