Alina Islam Ayat. Photo: Collected
Metropolis Report –
Police on Wednesday recovered two severed legs from a Chattogram canal close to the area where the prime accused in the murder of a kid said he had dumped her body parts.
Manaj Dey, inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), suspected that the limbs used to belong to Alina Islam Ayat, the five-year-old girl who went missing from EPZ area on November 15.
They will send the body parts for forensic and DNA test to confirm whether it belonged to Ayat,” said Manaj, added Manaj, also the investigation officer of the case .
On November 25, PBI officials arrested Abir Ali, the prime accused and a former tenant of the victim’s family. In primary interrogation, Abir said he kidnapped Ayat with an intention of demanding ransom, but at one stage strangled her to death.
He then cut up the body into six pieces and dumped it in the sea and the canal at the Outer Ring Road area.
Abir is now on a seven-day remand in the case. PBI also arrested Abir’s parents and his sister in this connection.
