Police recovered the bound body of a missing auto-van driver from the rooftop of a house in Lohagara upazila of Narail on Tuesday (November 10) morning.
The deceased was identified as Ajibar Sheikh, 40, son of Kuddus Sheikh, hailing from Singga village under Lohagara municipality.
According to family members and police, Ajibar left home with his auto-van on Monday (November 9) morning as usual. When he failed to return by evening, relatives launched a search across various areas.
His abandoned auto-van was recovered from the Laxmipasha Molyar Math area around 1:30AM on Tuesday, though Ajibar remained missing.
Later at around 7:30AM on Tuesday, local residents spotted his body with hands tied on the rooftop of an adjacent house near Laxmipasha Molyar Math and alerted law enforcement. A team from Lohagara Police Station subsequently arrived at the spot and retrieved the corpse.
The exact cause of death and how the body reached the rooftop remain unclear.
Lohagara Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shariful Islam confirmed the recovery, stating that the body is being sent to the Narail District Hospital morgue for an autopsy as investigations continue.
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