BCB Director Akram Khan’s domestic help found dead beside house
The body has been kept at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital morgue. Details will be given after the autopsy, police said
The police have recovered the dead body of a domestic help who used to work in Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Director Akram Khan's house in the capital's Mohakhali DOHS.
"The deceased was identified as Sahida Akhter, 25. Policemen recovered her body Sunday night from beside Akram Khan's house and sent it to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital. The body was handed over to the family after autopsy," Kafrul Police Station Officer-in-Charge Hafizur Rahman told The Business Standard.
The deceased's brother filed a case of unnatural death with Kafrul Police Station. Further actions will be taken after the autopsy report is available, he added.
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Akram Khan, also the former captain of the Bangladesh Cricket Team, said that there are four domestic helps in his house. Of them, Shahida has been working for 14 years. Yesterday, his wife and daughter could not find Shahida at home after they returned from outside at night. Later, her body was found beside the house.
Earlier in another incident that occurred on 20 August, a domestic help named Nurun Nahar, 24, who used to be a domestic help at BCB Director Jalal Younus' house, died mysteriously. Nurun was taken to a private hospital in an unconscious state from home on 20 August where the doctors declared her dead.
