Body of middle aged man identified
The body of a middle aged man, whom muggers made unconscious and snatched his CNG auto-rickshaw on Saturday night, was identified at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.
Relatives of CNG auto-rickshaw driver Shahjahan Talukder, 45, identified the body at DMCH morgue yesterday.
Shahjahan Talukder's brother Kenu Miah told the Daily Star that Talukder lived at Kamrangir Char.
Pedestrians rescued critically injured Shahjahan Talukder from Cantonment Rail Station area at around 7:00am on Sunday and took him to DMCH, where doctors declared him dead at about 7:45pm. The pedestrians said a train had hit him.
Kenu said Shahjahan had brought out the CNG auto-rickshaw from the garage of Badsha Miah, the owner of the auto-rickshaw, at Kamrangir Char Muslimbagh at around 8:00am on Saturday.
Since then he had remained missing.
Early hours of Sunday, Badsha received a phone call from the muggers, who told him that they had snatched away the auto-rickshaw after making the driver unconscious and throwing him on the trade fair ground at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. They also told that Badsha would have to pay Tk 70,000 to get the auto-rickshaw back.
Badsha Miah went to Uttara with Tk 70,000 and got back the vehicle by giving them the amount.
The morgue sources said there was a mark of heavy injury on the head of Shahjahan.
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