The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Police recovered a truncated body of an unidentified young woman from Protap Das Lane under Sutrapur Police Station in the old part of the city yesterday.

Police said local people spotted three plastics shopping bags at different spots of the lane containing six pieces of the body of a woman, in her early twenties and informed the police. The head of the deceased was kept in a bag, two legs in one other and her hands and other body parts in another bag.

Police recovered one bag from 3/B Protap Das Lane and the other two from 49/50 of the same lane at about 10:00am and sent those to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Police suspected that the girl might have been violated before she was

done to death. The body bore several bite marks on her face.

A murder case was filed with Sutrapur Police Station.