The human pieces of the unidentified woman, believed to be in her thirties, were found packed in four bags, which were kept in a big polythene sack wrapped in a bed sheet.

Police said they recovered the sack from near the main gate of the kindergarten on Iqbal Road at about 7:45am after locals, on suspicion, informed the police about it.

The severed body pieces, believed to have been refrigerated for some time, were sent to the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Morgue sources said the limbs of the murdered woman were cut into 11 pieces. The head, chest and abdomen were found in separate pieces. The intestines, stomach, liver, chest cavity and the esophagus were not found.

They also said the face of the woman was mutilated in a bid to hide her identity.

Police suspect that the woman might have been murdered a day or two ago.