Magura BCL leader arrested over firing that left baby shot in mother’s womb, man killed

RAB has confirmed arresting one of the main accused in Dhaka in a case lodged over a shooting that killed one person and wounded a mother and the baby in her womb in Magura.

Magura police have caught another accused, taking the number of arrestees to four.

Sen Suman, 35, the vice-president of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Magura unit, was taken into custody in the afternoon from a house at the capital’s Kalyanpur, RAB told reporters on Sunday night.

Their announcement came hours after leaders of BCL’s Magura district unit and local Awami League leaders claimed to bdnews24.com that Suman was arrested at a friend’s house in Dhaka.

Magura’s Superintendent of Police AKM Ehsan Ullah said he also heard of Suman’s arrest, but could not confirm it at the time.

Suman is the fourth accused in the case. But his family claims he was in Dhaka when the clash broke between supporters of two Awami Juba League factions on July 23.

Police in Magura arrested Nazrul Islam, the 13th accused named in the case, on Sunday evening.

Magura Detective Branch OC Imamul Haque said they nabbed Nazrul while searching a Khulna-bound bus on Dhaka-Magura Highway.

He was fleeting to Khulna fearing arrest, said Haque, the case’s investigation officer.

Sen Suman

Najma Begum was shot during the July 23 clash

Police on July 26 arrested two others – fifth accused ‘Sumon’ and 14th accused ‘Sobhan’ – in Magura.

Sumon owns a teashop and Sobhan a general store in the district town, where the clash took place.

A man named Abdul Momin was killed during the clash while stray bullets left Najma Begum, who was 34 weeks into her pregnancy, and one Miraz Hossain injured.

Doctors performed surgery on Najma to save the child at the night on July 23.

Two days later, the baby girl was transferred to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

A bullet had passed through the right side of the child’s body but did not damage any vital organ, doctors there said.

The DMCH on July 28 formed a 10-strong medical board to treat the newborn.

On Saturday, doctors said the child was making remarkable recovery.