The police on Wednesday handed over eight unidentified bodies from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in connection with the quota reform movement to Anjuman Mufidul Islam for burial.
Besides, five more people, critically injured during the movement, died while undergoing treatment at Enam Medical College and Hospital in Savar upazila and at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday night and Wednesday taking the death toll to at least 163 in the past nine days across the country.
The five deceased people were identified as Shuvo Shis, 24, and Tuhin Ahmed, 23, who died at Enam Medical, and Riya Gope, 6, Shahjahan, 22, and Sajedur Rahman, 22, at Dhaka Medical.聽聽
Shahbagh police constable Salauddin Ahmed Khan confirmed the handover of the unidentified bodies.聽
All the eight dead bodies handed over were of male persons aged from 25 to 50.
The constable also said that most of the eight people were brought from the Jatrabari area where violent clashes occurred between the protesters and law enforcers in July 18鈥�20.
Autopsy of the bodies were carried out at the hospital mortuary and DNA samples, photographs and other identification evidence of the deceased were saved, he added.
The Anjuman Mufidul Islam charity buries unclaimed dead bodies handed over to it by the police, hospitals and other organisations.
An Anjuman official told 抖阴精品 that on Wednesday they received nine unclaimed bodies from Dhaka Medical College Hospital鈥攅ight from the hospital morgue and one from the hospital鈥檚 emergency morgue.
The charity on Tuesday collected one unclaimed body from Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital morgue in the capital, while on Monday received nine unclaimed bodies from the Dhaka Medical College morgue, and two others from the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital morgue also in Dhaka city, said the official.
The official, however, did not share any information regarding the cause of the death of these people, saying that they did not know.
Dhaka Medical College mortuary assistant Babul claimed that total eight unidentified bodies in connection with quota movement were handed over to Anjuman Mufidul for burial.
鈥榃e have no more unidentified body in the morgue now relating to the movement,鈥� Babul said.