Body-recovery

The recovery of six bodies from separate locations in Jamalpur within a span of 10 days has raised concern among local residents. The bodies were recovered from different locations in Jamalpur city and Madarganj upazila between August 23 and September 1. The deceased include two housewives, a college student, a teenage girl, a scrap metal trader and a nurse. Questions have arisen over the incidents as the causes of several deaths have yet to be confirmed. Police said each incident is bein...

News has spread in Patharghata of Barguna that the bodies of five fishermen who went missing after the fishing trawler ‘FB Barkat’ sank in the Bay of Bengal have been recovered. Families who had been hoping their loved ones would return alive are now mourning. The information that the bodies were found in the deep sea on Tuesday afternoon has spread among the families of the missing fishermen. Relatives said the owner of the sunken trawler, Badal Molla, informed them about the matter. He...

As soon as the sound of gunfire at the border falls silent, a difficult task begins. The bodies of Bangladeshis lying on the other side must be brought home. The responsibility was not assigned by the government. Yet, for the past two decades, Abdur Rahman of Thakurgaon has been carrying out this work out of humanitarian duty. Whenever a body needs to be recovered at the Dharmagarh border in Thakurgaon’s Ranisankail upazila, members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and local residents...