The authorities have identified bodies of five more victims of the Chawkbazar fire after DNA tests.
Published : 12 Mar 2019, 06:25 PM
They are Rehnuma Tarannum Dola, Haji Ismail, Faysal Sarwar, Mohammad Zafar and ‘Mostafa’.
Sheikh Hemayet Hossain, an additional IGP at police’s Criminal Investigation Department or CID, came up with the findings of the DNA tests at a news conference in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Relatives identified 48 bodies when 67 were brought to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after the devastating fire at Churihatta overnight on Feb 20. Four more victims died later.
Some of the bodies were so charred that it became difficult to identify them.
CID conducted DNA tests to identify the bodies.