Bangladesh: 2 bodies recovered in city

Dhaka, July 7, 2014 (New Age): A body was recovered from a lake while a youth died falling from the top of a building in the capital on Sunday. Police recovered the body of a youth from Pallabi in the capital this morning. The deceased Sohel, 18, was a resident of Mirpur-11. Locals claimed one of his friends pushed him down from the rooftop of a building. Police detained the friend in question, with whom he was apparently arguing on the rooftop of a five-storey under-construction building the night before, informed Syed Ziauzzaman, officer-in-charge of Pallabi Police Station. Police covered Sohel’s body near a nearby one-storey building around 6:00am, the OC said. Police are yet to ascertain whether Sohel was murdered or fell down, he added. In Banani, the dead body of a transgender person, 30, who was dressed as a woman, was recovered from Banani Lake in the capital Sunday morning. Banani police said the dead body was floating on the west part of Banani Lake. The dead body was partially decomposed. The reason behind the death could not be ascertained till the filing of this report.