Savar is sinking into fear as the town’s abandoned municipal community centre continues to turn up bodies like a house with a curse on it.
On Sunday afternoon, police pulled out two more burnt victims from the second floor, pushing the building’s horrifying tally to five in just four months.
Locals are asking the same chilling question: Who keeps using this place as a killing zone?
The latest discovery began with a routine moment.
A Savar College student walked into the deserted centre, expecting silence and dust.
Instead, he stumbled onto two charred bodies lying inside a darkened room.
Shocked, he ran out and dialled 999, setting off another wave of panic that has now become eerily familiar in this neighbourhood.
Police arrived quickly, but even they were unsettled. The remains were burned so badly that officers could not confirm who the victims were.
Savar Model Police Station Inspector (Operation) Helal Uddin said that the police inspected the scene after receiving the information. However, the identities of the two bodies were not known as they were burnt. The incident is being investigated.
Investigators think one might be a woman and the other a young boy, but everything is uncertain until the Police Bureau of Investigation completes its analysis.
What is certain, police say, is that the building has become a magnet for violence, a quiet corner where criminals operate without witnesses.
Residents say the pattern is no longer coincidence.
They remember the night last August when a man was found dead inside the same centre with his limbs tied. Weeks later, in October, another body appeared, a woman whose presence in the building no one could explain. Then in December, a burnt man was found in the bathroom on the second floor. Every discovery has come without warning, without answers, and without any sign that the killers will stop.
Now, with two more victims, the fear in Savar has reached a breaking point. People living near the centre refuse to walk past it, even during the day. Some say the building is cursed. Others believe the killers keep returning because they know no one is guarding the place. Only after Sunday’s discovery did authorities finally install CCTV cameras around the structure, but locals insist it should have been done long ago.
Additional Superintendent of Police Md Asaduzzaman says the investigation is moving at full speed. PBI’s crime scene unit is working to identify the victims, trace the sequence of events, and map out how so many bodies ended up in the same forgotten building. But residents say official words offer little comfort. The questions keep growing, and so does the fear.
Savar has seen disturbing things before, but nothing like this steady stream of bodies from one abandoned hall. Until the mystery is solved and the killers are caught, the community centre stands as a grim reminder that danger can hide in the most ordinary places – and return again and again.