Dhaka: Nine unnatural deaths were reported in the capital in 24 hours to 9pm Saturday, causing some difficulties to the staffers of Mitford Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgues in doing so many postmortems.

DMCH sources exclaimed “as if it were a procession of dead bodies” as police procured the corpses from various places and brought in to the morgue one by one since Saturday morning.

Eight of the dead were identified as Lily, 9, Abdul Hannan, 45, Kayes Yusuf Hawladar, 14, Tusar, 14, Selim Sheikh, 35, Marzina Begum, 30, Ashraf Ali, 69, and British citizen Erin Marin. The identity of another man, aged around 40, could not be known.

Lily and Hannan, workers of Bawani Jute Mills, were electrocuted in Demra area during Friday night’s storms. The morgue men received their bodies on Saturday morning.

Ramna Thana police recovered the body of the unidentified man found floating in the Ramna Lake.

Kayes, a class-X student of Maghbazar T&T School, and Tusar, 14, drowned in ditches in the city while having bath.

Selim was found dead in the pond of the National Institute of Chest Diseases and Research Hospital at Mohakhali where he was admitted two days before for treatment.

The body of Marzina was retrieved from her bedroom in Ganaktuli Lane in Hazaribagh area.

Dhanmondi police recovered the body of UK expatriate Ashraf Ali in the evening. He returned home from London six days ago and was killed over a land dispute.

British citizen Erin Marin, 72, was declared dead at the DMCH at about 9am when a Bangladeshi national took him with sickness to the hospital for treatment. “The reason behind her death remained clouded in mystery,” said a police source.

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BDST: 1150, 16May, 2010