Visiting relative strangles boy
Police recovered the body of an 11-year-old unidentified boy and sent it to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy yesterday. The morgue sources said the boy was strangled.
Residents of a flat at the city's Uttara alleged that the boy was strangled by their visiting relative on Wednesday.
They saw it while their relative Zakir hossain, 30, was trying to hide the body under a sofa. Zakir fled immediately after the incident, they added.
Mizanur Rahman, a Biman official, lived in the flat in Sector 13. His paternal cousin Zakir came with the boy on Tuesday night, claiming he was a neighbour, said Sub-Inspector (SI) Matiur Rahman Sharif of Uttara Police Station, quoting the flat's residents.
Zakir strangled the boy inside a bathroom and wrapped the body with a mattress before putting it under a sofa, he said.
The domestic help saw protruding legs from under the sofa and informed the matter to Mizanur's wife, who tried to grab Zakir. But Zakir pushed her and fled, he added.
The SI said Mizanur's brother-in-law Rony, 22, who used to live there, has been picked up for interrogation as Rony, his brother, Zakir and the boy had slept in the same room.
Police are raiding different places including Zakir's village home in Barisal and Dhaka to arrest him but could not know the boy's identity till yesterday evening, he said.
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