Marjan’s death won’t hamper café attack investigation: IGP

Inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque said on Saturday that the killing of suspected Gulshan café attack coordinator Nurul Islam alias Marjan would not affect the investigation into the attack.
Talking to reporters after addressing an international programme at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University, he also said that as detained extremists tried to radicalise prisoners, he proposed the establishment of a centre to de-radicalise or rehabilitate the detained extremists.
Forensic experts at Dhaka Medical College found marks of bullet wounds in the bodies of Marjan and his associate Saddam Hossain, who were killed in ‘gunfight ‘ during an operation by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at Mohammadpur in Dhaka early Friday.
Forensic department head at the medical college Sohel Mahmud, after conducting post mortem examinations of the bodies, told reporters that they primarily thought that the two were killed by bullet hits. 
‘We have collected viscera, urine, blood and thigh muscle to conduct DNA and other tests,’ he said.
Sohel said that the bodies were kept at the morgue.
The Gulshan café attack on July 1, 2016 killed 22 people, including 17 foreigners, and Marjan’s name surfaced when counter terrorism chief Monirul Islam in August 2016 said that they were for Marjan who coordinated the attack, the first of such type in the country. 
Police officials said Marjan and Saddam were top leaders of a Jamaatul Mujahedeen faction.
Though Middle East-based extremist organisation Islamic State claimed the responsibility for the café attack, law enforcing agencies always claimed that the attack was conducted by home-grown extremists of the JMB faction.
Although Marjan was the coordinator of the café attack, his death would not hamper the investigation, said inspector general of police Shahidul Hoque.
He said that most of the extremists involved in Gulshan café attack were either killed or arrested, but the police had enough information to prepare the charge sheet in the case. 
He said that Marjan and Saddam were involved in almost all the extremist attacks in Dhaka, its surrounding areas and in the northern districts.
Shahidul said that the anti-extremist operations would continue to curb extremism.
Counter terrorism unit sub-inspector Asgar Ali lodged a case with Mohammadpur police station Friday night against Marjan, Saddam and an unnamed man under the Anti-Terrorism Act in connection with early Friday’s operation, said Mohammadpur police station assistant sub-inspector Pradip Chandra Saha.
Besides Marjan and Saddam, at least 28 suspected extremists, all belonging to the JMB faction, were killed in law enforcers’ raid in at least eight suspected extremist dens at places in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Tangail following attacks on the Gulshan café on July 1, 2016 and a police checkpoint at Sholakia in Kishoreganj on July 7, 2016.

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