Police have recovered the body of van driver Azibar Sheikh (45) in Lohagara, Narail. His hands were tied with string and there were marks of injury on his neck.
The body was recovered at about 7am on Tuesday (10 November) from the roof of a building beside the Mollar Math ground in Lakshmipasha, in the upazila town.
Azibar was the son of Kuddus Sheikh of Singa village.
According to local people, a tenant of the one-storey building owned by Mahima Hossain Giri Begum beside the Mollar Math ground saw Azibar Sheikh’s body on the roof on Tuesday morning and called police. There is no gate on the building’s stairs, so the attackers could easily get up to the roof.
His family said Azibar drove an auto-van and delivered timber to various shops. He had been missing since Monday evening, and the family searched for him widely. They could not find him, but at about 1am that night relatives found his van at the Mollar Math ground.
Azibar’s cousin Selim Sheikh said that Ripon Mia, a timber trader beside the Lakshmipasha Mollar Math ground, went to Dhaka on Monday for Umrah, and left more than Tk 1 lakh with Azibar for the timber business, which Azibar had been looking after. “We suspect the attackers found out, killed Azibar and fled with the money. If the police investigate, the real picture will come out,” he said.
Shariful Islam, officer in charge (OC) of Lohagara Police Station, said: “Azibar’s hands were tied with string, and there are marks of injury on his neck. It is initially believed that he was strangled. Who killed him and why is being investigated. The body has been sent to the district hospital morgue for a post-mortem.”
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