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Fatehpur dead identified, relatives decline to receive bodies

Local April 04, 2017

The identities of a seven-member family killed during a raid on an extremists’ den at Fatehpur village in Moulvibazzar were confirmed on Monday, but he relatives declined to receive the bodies.
In another development, two unidentified bodies, killed during army commandos’ operation at extremists’ den in Atia Mahal in Sylhet, were removed on Monday.
New Age correspondent in Moulvibazar reported that identities of the seven people, found killed after a raid on a suspected extremists’ hideout at Fatehpur village on March 29, were
confirmed by their relatives on Monday.
All of them were members of a family, the police reaffirmed.
The lone male was identified as Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh leader Lokman Hossain, 45, while the rest were identified as his wife Shireena Akhter, 35, and their five daughters – Amena Khatun, 21, Sumaiya, 21, Marium, 10, Fatema, 7, and Khadija, 7 months – of Dangapara village of Ghoraghat upazila in Dinajpur.
Moulvibazar superintendent of police Mohammad Shahjalal confirmed the identities after verifying the statement of their relatives.
Lokman’s father-in-law Abu Bakar Siddique identified the bodies based on the family’s group photo found inside the house where the seven were found killed, said the district police chief.
The relatives did not receive the bodies.
Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit on March 29 launched an operation code-named ‘Operation Hit Back’ on the ‘extremists’ den’ at Fatehpur.
The police said that the extremist and his family blew themselves up to avoid arrest.
Sub-inspector Sahabuddin filed a case against unnamed people with Moulvibazar police station.
New Age correspondent in Sylhet reported that two bodies of suspected extremists were recovered on Monday, six days after the army commandos’ Operation Twilight ended resulting into the death of four suspected extremists.
A bomb disposal team of Rapid Action Battalion handed the bodies over to the police at about 5:30pm after recovering them from Atia Mahal, a five-storey building in Sylhet city.
After suspending the operation to neutralise explosives in the evening, RAB-9 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Ali Hayder Azad said that they would need more time to complete the operation.
He said that they found two male bodies and those were not in the state to be identified due to explosion of the suicidal vests fixed with them and lying for six days.
Moglabazar police officer-in-charge Khayrul Fazal said that the two bodies were brought to the government hospital morgue for post-mortem examination.
Earlier on March 29, the army commandos handed over two bodies to police after ending their four-day operation at Atia Mahal. Those bodies already buried at Manikpir Tila graveyard in the city as unclaimed after completing autopsies and taking samples for DNA tests.
On March 25, the 17 Infantry Division of Jalalabad Cantonment started its operation and rescued 78 civilians from inside the building unhurt and four suspected extremists, including a female, were found killed during four-day operation that ended on March 28.
The police on Monday detained seven people in Mymensingh town suspecting their involvement in extremism.
Acting on a tip-off that suspected extremists holed up inside a one-storey building at Bhabanipur Lodge at Bara Kalibari, police conducted a two-hour drive at the house from 12:30pm, said Mymensingh superintendent of police Syed Nurul Islam.
Police initially asked them to surrender but as they did not comply, the law enforcers broke into the house and detained the seven, the police official added.
No firearms or explosives were found at the house, but a large number of bank cheques, computers and Islamic books were found.