RAB bringing parents, aunt of deceased Rampura siblings to Dhaka as forensics suspect possible murder

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) says it will ‘speak’ with the parents and an aunt over the mysterious deaths of two siblings at Dhaka’s Rampura.

The elite police unit is bringing them back to Dhaka on Wednesday morning from Jamalpur, where the 14-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother have been buried the previous day.

Relatives said that RAB personnel whisked away the parents and a maternal aunt from their home at Jamalpur town.

“They came and took them away for what they said to check evidences,” the children’s paternal uncle Abul Hossain told bdnews24.com.

The law enforcers, however, said that they have not been detained or arrested.

“We are bringing them to Dhaka to just speak with them over the incident,” Additional SP Mostak Ahmed of Dhaka-based RAB 3 told bdnews24.com when asked whether the three have been held.

Viqarunnisa Noon School student Ishrat Zahan Oroni and her brother Alvi Aman were declared dead by Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) when they were taken there in unconscious condition on Monday night.

The family said they ate food at a restaurant on Sunday night and took home the leftovers. They ate the leftovers on Monday afternoon and went to sleep and did not wake up.

But forensic doctors found bruises and finger prints on their throats as well as injury marks on several areas during the autopsy the next day.

 “We are awaiting a viscera report. But, we suspect they have been murdered,” DMCH forensic department’s Assistant Professor Md Sohel Mahmud told bdnews24.com on Tuesday.