43 Bodies Of Bailey Road Blaze Victims Returned

Remains of 43 people bodies who died after devastating blaze at a commercial building on Bailey Road, handed over to their loved ones. Authorities ensured the information.

Meanwhile two bodies are still in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue and another at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery as they await identification, Additional District Magistrate AKM Hedaitul Islam said on Saturday.

As many as 46 people died after a fire raced through the seven-storey Green Cozy Cottage, housing mostly restaurants, on a busy Thursday evening.

Bodies of 40 victims were returned to their families on Friday. Relatives collected the bodies of three more victims on Saturday.

The two bodies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital have yet to be identified. Meanwhile, the body of Avishruti Shastri, a journalist who died in the fire, has not been released from the Sheikh Hasina Burn Institute amid confusion over her identity.

Efforts to identify them through DNA testing are ongoing, said Hedaitul.