Tavella’s body handed over to Italian Embassy

The body of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella, who was killed by some miscreants on September 28 in the city’s Gulshan area, was handed over to the Italian Embassy in Dhaka on Wednesday morning.

Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) Jihad Hossian received the body on behalf of the embassy around 10am at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in presence of two embassy staff.

Ceasare Tavella’s body is scheduled to be flown to Italy in a flight around 9pm today, said Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Muntasir Islam.

On September 28, Cesare Tavella, 50, project manager of PROOFS (Profitable Opportunities for Food Security) of the Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation ‘ICCO Cooperation’, on Gulshan’s Rd 90, was shot by some miscreants at Gulshan in the city.

Later, he died from excessive loss of blood while being moved to nearby United Hospitals.

Since completion of the postmortem, the body was kept at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) mortuary.