The Counter Terrorism and Transitional Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday received confirmation through DNA test reports from Canada that Tamim Chowdhury, the alleged neo-JMB coordinator and Gulshan attack mastermind, was indeed killed along with two of his cronies in a gunfight with law enforcers in Narayanganj over two months ago. Talking to The Independent, Additional Police Commissioner Mohammad Yusuf Ali of DMP Media and Public Relations said, they received the DNA report yesterday that confirmed the identity of Tamim, the anadian-Bangladeshi who was killed when law enforces raided a militant hideout in Paikpara of Narayanganj on August 27. Earlier, the DMP had announced a bounty of Tk 20 lakh for information leading to the arrest of Tamim Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-origin Canadian citizen.
Police had collected samples from the body and sent those to Canada for matching and examining. According to the police official, DNA samples from Tamim body were examined in Canada and it matched with the samples taken from the bodies of his father and sister living there.
The Canada authorities have got the DNA samples of Tamim with that of his father Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury and his sister during the test and they later sent the test report to the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of The DMP.
Tamim was born to a Bangladeshi family hailing from Sylhet. Tamim’s father Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury was a mariner and the family migrated to Canada in the early 1970s.
The 30-year-old, alleged mastermind behind the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Gulshan, was a resident of Windsor until he went missing in 2013.
Various reports in the international media, citing several Islamic State (IS) publications, had described Tamim  Chowdhury as the coordinator of IS operations in Bangladesh. According to international militant outfit IS,
Tamim was the former head of Military and Covert Operations of the Soldiers of Khilafah in Bengal, and was known as Abu Dujanah al-Bengali. Law enforcers in the country, however, claim that Tamim was the coordinator of neo-JMB that does not have any link with the Islamic State.