At least 57 bodies, buried or kept in mortuaries at the time of the student-led mass uprising, remained still unclaimed or unidentified as of Saturday.
Anjuman Mufidul Islam, a burial service for unclaimed or unidentified bodies, from July 22 to August 12 buried 48 bodies of which one was identified later by family and one was of a Palestinian citizen who died in China.
The rest 11 unidentified or unclaimed bodies remained in the morgues of Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College in the capital.
An Anjuman Mufidul Islam official on Saturday told 抖阴精品 that they buried all the 48 bodies in the Rayerbazar graveyard.
Anjuman Mufidul received 11 bodies on July 22鈥攏ine from the Dhaka Medical College Hospital forensic morgue and two from Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College; one from the Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital forensic morgue on July 23; eight from the聽 Dhaka Medical College Hospital forensic morgue and one from the hospital鈥檚 emergency morgue on July 24; three from the Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmad Medical College morgue in Gazipur on July 25; seven from Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College on July 27; 11 from the Dhaka Medical College Hospital forensic morgue on July 28; one from the Palestine embassy in Bangladesh on July 29; three from the Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital forensic morgue on July 31; one from Kurmitola General Hospital and one from Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital on August 12, said the official.
Organisation deputy director for service Motiar Rahman said that they buried 83 bodies from July 1 till Saturday.
鈥榃e do not know the exact number of bodies related with the movement,鈥� said Motiar.
He, however, mentioned that most of the unidentified and unclaimed bodies received from July 22 could be related with the student movement leading to a mass uprising that forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India.
鈥榃e did not receive a single body without following legal procedures and documents,鈥� said Motiar.
Anjuman has preserved all the necessary documents, including photographs of the deceased and mortuary receipts, he added.
鈥楻elatives of the deceased can come to Anjuman to identify a body from the photographs,鈥� he said.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital mortuary assistant Babul said that seven unidentified bodies of men aged between 25 and 32 were still in the morgue as of Saturday afternoon.
Earlier on Thursday, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College issued a letter to the media, stating that it had four unclaimed bodies, brought to the hospital between August 4
and 6, of individuals who died during the protests and unrest.
The hospital sent a public request to claim the bodies by August 18.
Among the bodies, one was completely burnt.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in a report on Friday said that 650 people were killed in between 16 July and 11 August over the student protest in Bangladesh.
