KHULNA, Sept 23 (UNB): Rahima Begum, 52, of Khulna, who had been missing since August 27, was found dead in Mymensingh, her daughter has claimed.
"I have just found my mother's body," this is what Moriom Mannan, daughter of Rahima, wrote in a Facebook post at around 11:30pm on Thursday.
However, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), Khulna's Daulatpur police station and Mymensingh police couldn't confirm the matter. The PBI is investigating the case filed over the woman's disappearance.
Khulna Superintendent of Police Syed Mushfiqur Rahman said the investigation officer of the case spoke to Moriom.
Moriom told them that her mother's body was recovered from the Phulpur area of Mymensingh.
Mymensingh Police said the body of a woman, aged about 32, was recovered from Phulpur on September 10 and was buried.
But Rahima Begum is around 52 years old, he added. "In all, police couldn't identify the body recovered in Mymensingh."
Moriom Mannan told the investigation officer she identified her mother's body by scrutinizing a photograph of the clothes she was wearing.
Phulpur police station has collected the DNA samples of the recovered body.
The investigation officer asked Moriom to go to Phulpur police station on Saturday. There her DNA sample will be collected and matched with the DNA of the recovered body.
"If the DNA matches it can be confirmed," said SP Mushfiqur.
On August 27, Rahima went missing after she had stepped out to fetch water near her home in the Banikpara area of Doulatpara upazila in Khulna at around 10:00 pm.
