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at different city hospitals and two are in the ICU, said another staffer.

“We are now providing blood samples to check the source of poisoning,” he said.

Sources said they had collected alcohol from the city’s Gulistan area.

Abu Aziz, officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Kafrul Police Station, told The Daily Star that they received a call about a private organisation employee, who got sick and died in a city hospital while undergoing treatment after returning to Dhaka from an office tour.

“We heard they had liquor and we are suspecting it was poisonous. We sent the victim’s body to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College morgue for autopsy,” said the OC.

Meanwhile, the morgue sources said they have kept samples from the victims’ bodies to find the reason behind their deaths.

In Mohammadpur, a private university student, whose father filed a rape case on Sunday accusing five other students of the same university, allegedly died from alcohol poisoning, police claimed.

On Saturday, an accused in the case, Arafat, 28, also died at Mohammadpur’s City Hospital, Harun-Ur-Rashid, deputy commissioner of Tejgaon Division, told The Daily Star.

“We are suspecting both the victim and the accused died from alcohol poisoning. We are now looking into the incidents,” he added.

Meanwhile in Bogura, around six people were killed, and five others admitted in hospital, yesterday after allegedly ingesting poisonous liquor on Sunday night, reports our correspondent.

The dead are Alamgir Hosain, 55, Ramjan Ali, 60, Suman Rabidas, 35, Saju Pramanik, 55, Mozahar Ali, 70, and Polash Hossain, 35.

Ayub, 40, who is undergoing treatment, said that they had collected tampered alcohol from a Homeo lab on Saturday night and started feeling sick on Sunday morning.

Suman Rabidas’s brother Sujan said his brother bought tampered spirit from a Homeo Hall.

After consuming it, Suman got ill and died, he said.

Md Humayan Kabir, OC of Bogura Sadar police station, said primarily they have found that Suman, Polash and Saju died unnaturally.

“We have come to know that all of them used to take tampered alcohol regularly,” he said, adding, “Another victim, Ramjan, died from cardiac arrest in the hospital but we have found that he also used to consume tampered alcohol.”

Mozaher Ali had also bought tampered alcohol the night he died.

The OC said they have already started a drive against the Homeo halls that sell rectified spirit to these people. “A case is underway in this regard,” he added.

Abdul Wadud, deputy director of Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital, said a total of five people are now undergoing treatment in the hospital after having toxic liquor.

Regarding death of other victims, he said they would be able to get clearer information after the autopsies.