STAR REPORT

Authorities in Florida have identified the body of Bangladeshi PhD student Nahida Sultana Bristy, who had been missing since April 16.

Golam Mortoza, minister (press) at the Bangladesh Embassy in the United States, told The Daily Star via WhatsApp that Florida police had contacted Bristy’s brother to confirm the identification.

The family has requested that her body be sent back to Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, DC, in coordination with the Bangladesh Consulate in Miami, has begun repatriation procedures, he added.

Bristy and Zamil Ahmed Limon, both 27-year-old PhD students from Bangladesh, went missing on April 16. Limon was last seen at an off-campus complex where he shared an apartment with murder suspect Hisham Abugharbieh and another roommate.

Detectives used cellphone location data and license plate reader records to track Abugharbieh’s car and Limon’s phone to a bridge where Limon’s body was found on April 24. Prosecutors said the body had multiple stab wounds

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