, July 12 -- Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the prime accused in a case filed over dismembering the body of a woman from Roufabad in Chattogram city on Friday.

The arrestee was deceased Fatema Akther's husband Md Sumon.

Tipped off, a team of Rab-7 conducted a drive in Chattogram and arrested Sumon, said MRM Mozaffar Hossain, assistant director (public relations) of Rab-7 on Friday night.

Earlier on Thursday, police recovered the body of a 20-year-old Fatema, severed into eleven pieces, from a flat in Roufabad in Chattogram city.

Getting a bad odor from the 9th floor flat of Paharika Housing, local people informed the matter to police who recovered the body pieces from the house.

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