Autopsy finds bullet in teenage Afifs body
Militant Musas wife, another put on 7–day remand
A teenage boy, Afif Quadri, who died in a police raid on a militant hideout in Dhakas Dakkhin Khan early Saturday, suffered multiple bullet wounds, says a forensic expert. He (Afif Quadri) died of gunshot wounds. There were multiple bullet wounds on his body. One of the bullets has been taken out, said Sohel Mahmud, assistant professor of forensic medicine at Dhaka Medical College.
He made this observation while talking to reporters after collecting samples of Afif Quadris blood yesterday afternoon.
Mahmud said viscera, blood, urine, thigh muscle, hair and tooth samples, too, had been collected.
The blood and urine samples would undergo chemical tests, while muscle, hair and tooth would be used for DNA tests.
He said the boys blood and urine would also reveal whether the 14-year-old had taken any drug.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday placed two woman militants on a seven-day remand in a case filed under the Anti-terrorism Act.
Metropolitan magistrate Meher Nigar Suchana passed the order when the investigating officer of the case and an inspector of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit produced the two women in court, seeking a 10-day remand for interrogation. The suspected militants were identified as Jebennuhar, wife of Maj. Jahid, and Trisha Mani Umme Aysha, wife of the fugitive militant Musa. The two women surrendered to the law enforcers during Saturdays raid.
Shahinur Islam, sub-inspector of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), filed a case with Dakkhin Khan police station on Saturday night against eight suspected militants in connection with the police raid.
The suspected militants were named as Shakira alias Tahira, wife of the
absconding militant Sumon, Afif Quaderi alias Ador, son of Tanvir Quadri, who was killed during a raid on another militant den in Dhakas Azimpur, Trisha Moni alias Umme Ayesha, wife of the absconding JMB leader Musa, and Jebunnahar Shila, wife of ex-armyman Major Zahid, who was killed in a gunfight with law enforcers at Roopnagar on September 2.
In another development, the Crime Scene unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday handed over evidence to the investigating officer (IO) of a case filed in connection with Saturdays raid on the militant hideout.
Absus Salam, assistant superintendent of the police of CIDs Crime Scene unit, told reporters that a CID team had collected evidence from the ground floor of the three-storey building, where two militants were killed in separate blasts. We have found enough evidence of the place being used as a militant hideout and sometimes as their office, he said.
Earlier, two suspected militants, including Shakira alias Tahira, wife of the absconding militant Sumon, were killed and a seven-year-old girl, daughter of the slain militant Iqbal, was injured during the police raid, which was codenamed Operation Ripple 24.
Another woman militant, accompanied by a four-year-old girl, came out of the building and blew herself up by activating an improvised suicide vest. The woman died instantly, while the child, who suffered splinter injuries, is being treated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
