{"id":3210,"date":"2025-08-31T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:41:50","slug":"american-citizen-found-dead-in-the-westin-dhaka-no-autopsy-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"American citizen found dead in The Westin Dhaka, no autopsy done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police have recovered the body of an American national from The Westin Dhaka in the capital\u2019s Gulshan-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrence Arvelle Jackson, aged about 50, checked into Room No. 808 on August 29. He had been in Bangladesh on a business trip for the last few months, Inspector (Operation) Mizanur Rahman of Gulshan police station said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police handed over the body to the US Embassy in Dhaka without conducting an autopsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=3201\">Report: Militants planned siege of Indian High Commission in Dhaka<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson did not respond when a staffer of The Westin Dhaka checked on him in the afternoon. Later, the authorities informed the police. Police and embassy officials went to the spot, opened the room with a master key and found him dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OC Hafizur Rahman said that they reviewed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/news\/bangladesh\/crime-justice\/news\/us-national-found-dead-westin-dhaka-3975546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCTV footage<\/a> in The Westin Dhaka for the last two days. There was nothing suspicious. \u201cWe primarily suspect that he died of natural causes. A medical team was present with the embassy officials. We handed over the body to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities at The Westin Dhaka and the US Embassy did not make any comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have recovered the body of an American national from The Westin Dhaka in the capital\u2019s Gulshan-2. Terrence Arvelle Jackson, aged about 50, checked into Room No. 808 on August&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,20],"tags":[746,50,65,56,745,109,64],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-gulshan","tag-interim-government","tag-mobocracy","tag-muhammad-yunus","tag-the-westin-dhaka","tag-us-embassy-dhaka","tag-yunus-gang"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}