B'desh hands over murdered Japanese woman's body to embassy

Bangladesh today handed over the body of a Japanese woman to the Japanese embassy officials here, over five months after the 60-year-old businesswoman was allegedly murdered by her kidnappers and buried in a graveyard under a false name.
"We have handed over the body to the Japanese embassy officials," a police official said, adding that investigations into the case are still on.
Heroi Miata, who was living in Dhaka's Uttara area for 10 years, went missing in October last year after which her mother in Japan contacted the Japanese embassy in Dhaka.
Following a complaint by Japanese embassy officials in November last year, an investigation was launched and Bangladeshi police found that she was murdered on October 29 last year and was buried in a graveyard here as a Muslim under a false name.

Police detained five people suspecting their link to the murder and the woman's body was exhumed on a court order for autopsy.
It was found that she was abducted for ransom and later was killed as the culprits failed to realise the amount they demanded, a police officer had said.
Bangladesh last year witnessed the murders of another Japanese farmer and an Italian aid worker by suspected Islamists in separate incidents.