Staff Reporter

The body of K M Tahsin Sauri, 28, a former Bangladesh Air Force officer, was recovered from the Turag River in Dhaka by river police on Wednesday afternoon, a day after he went missing. His body was recovered from the river near Rajabari Ghat.

Firoz Uddin, inspector at the Tongi outpost of the Dhaka region’s river police, confirmed the matter on Thursday morning.

He said a team of river police recovered Tahsin’s body from the area near Rajabari Ghat on the Turag River at around 4:30 pm on Wednesday after receiving information through the national emergency service hotline 999. After preparing an inquest report, the body was sent to the morgue at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for an autopsy.

The river police official said the cause of Tahsin’s death would be confirmed after the autopsy report was received.

Tahsin was a retired flight lieutenant. He lived with his family in an apartment in Sector 18 of Uttara, Dhaka. He went missing on Tuesday. His father’s name is K M Enayet Helal.