Staff Reporter :
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday identified five more victims of Chawkbazar fire through DNA tests.
The victims are Ismail Hossain, 60, Zafar Ahmed, 43, Foysal Sarowar, 53, Mostafa Mia, 39 and Rehnuma Tabassum Dola, 19.
Additional Inspector General of Police (CID) Sheikh Hemayet Hossain said that the CID disclosed the identities of the deceased in a press briefing in its Conference Room of Malibagh office
Eleven more victims of Chawkbazar fire were identified through DNA tests on March 6.
Thus, a total of 16 bodies have been identified while three others remained unidentified as no DNA samples matched with the victims’ sample. Some of the bodies were so charred that it became difficult to identify them, the CID official said.
Earlier, 24 claimants gave their sample to the CID to 20 bodies which were burnt beyond recognition in the Chawkbazar fire.
A total of 23 families provided DNA samples for 20 bodies. DNA of 16 dead victims completely matched with 16 claimants.
Of the remaining four bodies, two were found to be the parts of bodies identified earlier through DNA.
Mosammat Fatima gave DNA sample for her missing son, Shafiqul for his relative Mohammad Helal and Altaf Miah for his son Mohammad Rafiq, but those did not match with bodies, the official said.
Now, there still remains two bodies, which have been DNA profiled, but they have no claimants, the official said.
Meanwhile, Rehnuma Tabassum Dola and her friend Fatema-tuz- Zohra alias Brishti were burnt in the same way in Churihatta inferno while returning to respective residence just in front of the fire spot, said a DB official.
Their location on rickshaw on road of Begum Bazar around 300 metre’s away from the fire place, the cops official said quoting mobile tracking report. Brishti was identified thru DNA tests on Mach 6, he said.
Dola’s mother Sufia Begum said, “Dola and Brishti completed their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) degree from the city’s Azimpur Agrani School and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) from City College.”
