Forensic Enquiries Underway After Two Bodies Found in Munshiganj

A dual investigation has been launched in the Sirajdikhan sub-district of Munshiganj following the recovery of two bodies from different locations on Saturday afternoon. Local police and railway authorities are working independently to resolve the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified young man near a train station, alongside the suspicious abandonment of a veteran auto-rickshaw driver’s body by a rural roadside.

The initial discovery occurred near the Nimtala railway station when local residents spotted a young man lying motionless in the grass flanking the tracks. Railway authorities were notified immediately, prompting a swift response from a Dhaka Railway Police detachment. Officers secured the perimeter and retrieved the body, which was later dispatched to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for a comprehensive autopsy.

Sub-Inspector Mohammad Kaiyum Ali, leading the railway police enquiry, noted that preliminary physical trauma points toward a high-impact collision with a passing train. He stressed, however, that a definitive ruling on the cause of death is pending the official post-mortem report. Fingerprint sweeps and missing person databases are currently being cross-referenced to identify the youth.

“The nature of the injuries is consistent with a railway strike, but we are keeping all investigative angles open until the medical examiner delivers the final autopsy report,” stated Sub-Inspector Mohammad Kaiyum Ali.

The Expressway Collision and Roadside Abandonment

As railway investigators worked at Nimtala, a separate, deeply troubling scene unfolded in South Latabdi village, where local precinct officers recovered the body of 65-year-old Nurul Islam. A resident of Chargulgolia village within the Basail union, Islam was a well-known local figure who operated a three-wheeled batterypowered auto-rickshaw to support his family.

A reconstruction of Islam’s final hours by Inspector Mohammad Habibur Rahman, head of investigations at the Sirajdikhan Police Station, revealed a tragic sequence of events:

• The Initial Impact: At midday, Islam’s auto-rickshaw was completely mangled in a violent traffic collision on the high-speed Dhaka-Mawa Expressway, specifically within the Hasara zone under the Srinagar sub-district.

• The Alleged Rescue: Investigators believe that either panicked drivers involved in the crash or passing motorists loaded the critically injured 65-year-old into a private vehicle, ostensibly to transport him to an emergency medical facility.

• The Roadside Dump: Medical evidence suggests Islam died of internal bleeding whilst inside the vehicle. Rather than delivering his body to a hospital—which would trigger mandatory police questioning—the occupants allegedly pulled over in rural South Latabdi, dumped his body on the grass, and fled.

Sirajdikhan police have officially taken custody of the elderly driver’s body and are coordinating an extensive cross-precinct manhunt with Srinagar police. Intercept teams are currently reviewing expressway CCTV footage and toll booth records from the Hasara area to identify the vehicle involved in the initial collision and subsequent hit-and-run abandonment.