Turkish national found dead in Cox’s Bazar

A Turkish national has been found dead in a room of a residential hotel in Cox's Bazar town.

The body of Misos Dural Bay (50) was recovered around 8:00pm yesterday, our local correspondent reports quoting Md Khairuzzaman, inspector (investigation) of Cox's Bazar Sadar Model Police Station.

He might have died from a stroke, Inspector Khairuzzaman speculated.

Dr Shaheen Md Abdur Rahman Chowdhury, residential medical officer of Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital, said that samples of the deceased were collected for Covid-19 test to know whether he was infected by the virus.

Dural Bay was an information technology (IT) officer at a field hospital in Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia upazila.

He had been working there for the last four months.