One of the newborn twin babies reportedly has been from Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), hours after their births on Tuesday.
Twenty-four-year-old Sukhi Begum from Dhamrai upazila in Dhaka gave birth to two babies through C-section around 7:30am on Tuesday at Gynaecology ward No 212.
Father of the twin babies, Shariful Islam, said the incident occurred between 1:30pm and 2:00pm at ward number 212 of the hospital.
The hospital authorities and Shahbagh Police Station started investigating the incident, the hospital’s Ansar Platoon Commander (PC) Mizan said.
According to inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost, a burqa-clad woman approached Hasina Begum, grandmother of the babies, while she was attending to the newborns in the corridor outside the maternity ward.
The suspected woman, over the time, build a rapport with her and fled from there with one of the babies, said Hasina.
“We searched all possible places in and around the hospital, but failed to trace the woman,” she said.
Police officers and hospital authorities are trying to identify the suspect through CCTV camera footage, said DMCH Director Brig Gen MD Asaduzzaman.
