Police identify man whose taped-up body was found on Dhaka Elevated Expressway

Police have identified the man whose body was found with his mouth taped on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway.

The dead was 50-year-old Ismail Hossain of Jamalpur Sadar Upazila. He lived in Gazipur’s Konabari.

Banani Police Station Sub-Inspector Nazrul Islam Talukdar said Ismail was identified by matching his fingerprints with the National Identity Card database.

“We have informed his family. We have learnt that they have gone to Dhaka Medical College Hospital,” SI Nazrul said.

Asked about Ismail's occupation, the police officer said they had not yet been able to confirm it as they had not spoken to his family members about the matter.

Police recovered the unidentified man's body from the Dhaka Elevated Expressway on Friday morning. His mouth had been taped, and he was wearing a blue shirt resembling the uniform worn by autorickshaw drivers and a Lungi.

Security cameras cover the entire elevated expressway, but police have yet to establish how the body came to be there.

Police suspect the body was dumped from a vehicle.

“We suspect he was strangled to death and that his body was brought in a vehicle and dumped there,” SI Nazrul said.

Police are collecting footage from the closed-circuit cameras and working to identify the vehicle, he said.