The police on Sunday said that they had begun to hand over the bodies of the 16 people killed in the Mirpur factory fire on October 14 to their families.
The process of handing over the bodies from Dhaka Medical College Hospital started at about 9:30pm on Sunday after completing their DNA profiling, Rupnagar police said.
Earlier, the Criminal Investigation Department鈥檚 deputy inspector general for forensic, Md Jamsher Ali, said that the DNA profiling for the 16 bodies was completed.
The families were urged to contact Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities or the police to take the bodies of their loved ones, he said.
Earlier, 28 people from 16 families of the Mirpur fire victims gave DNA samples to the CID forensic lab in Dhaka.
A fire broke out at a chemical warehouse and its adjacent garment factory, from where the 16 bodies were recovered in the Rupnagar Residential Area of Shialbari in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur area on October 14.
The fire was doused after two days.
A case was filed by a family member of one of the deceased on October 15 against the owner and the manager of the warehouse, accusing them of causing deaths by negligence.
