Police recovered parts of several human bodies, including seven legs, three hands and one head wrapped in a sack at DCC garbage dumping zone in capital's Matuail on Friday morning.
Minhazul Islam, Assistant Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told The New Nation yesterday that some city corporation cleaners first found the bodies in the garbage zone in the morning and informed the police.
Later, the law enforcers recovered 16 parts of human bodies, including seven legs, three hands, one head and upper torso dumped inside the garbage.
Police, however, could not ascertain the number of bodies and their identities.
But his (Minhazul's) claim differed with DCC (South) Chief Waste Management Officer SM Javed Iqbal, who said the cleaners found three heads, seven legs and several other dried up parts of human bodies.
Sub-Inspector Muneer of Jatrabari Police Station, who was present at the scene, told reporters that some street children notified the cleaners after finding the sacks early on Friday at the DCC dumping station in Mridhabari area of Matuail.
Then Javed Iqbal led the cleaners and checked it out. Then they called the police.
OC Rafiqul Islam of Jatrabari Police Station said, "The body parts in the plastic sacks have mostly dried up. It looks like they were possibly killed at least a month ago. The sacks with the body parts were thrown in the dumpster later."
Police suspected that the killers had used chemical for quickly decomposing the bodies before throwing at the dumping ground.