RAB arrests 4 more suspects in Moghbazar triple murders

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested four more suspects of the Moghbazar triple murders.

With the latest arrests, the number of those arrested for the murders on Aug 28, have gone up to 17.

RAB-3 Operations Officer Rabiul Karim said that the four were arrested from different parts of Dhaka on Friday and Saturday.

He, however, did not reveal the identities of those arrested and said that details would be provided at a press conference later on Saturday.

On Aug 28, a group of assailants entered a house at Sonalibagh and shot dead three people -- the house's owner ‘Brishty’ alias ‘Ranu’, 30, tenants ‘Munna’, 22, and ‘Belal’, 20.

The family blamed local "crime boss" Shah Alam Khandakar alias Kala Babu, saying he had been try to extort money from them for some time. They claimed the murders took place as they did not pay up.

Ranu's brother Shamim alias Kala Chan filed a case over the murders naming Babu as the prime suspect.

Earlier, police had arrested six suspects including Babu out of the 13 named in the case.

On Sept 15, Kala Babu died in what the police described as a 'shootout' in Dhaka.

Police, however, believe the murders were a sequel to  a dispute over a Bangladesh railway land that had been encroached.