Ninth ‘militant’ goes unidentified four days into killing in Kalyanpur raid

One of the nine suspected militants killed in the Kalyanpur anti-terror operation is yet to be identified, four days after the raid on their hideout.

No-one has come to see the body kept with the others at Dhaka Medical College mortuary, Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesperson Masudur Rahman told bdnews24.com on Friday night.

Mirpur Model Police Station Inspector Sazzad Hossain had been tasked with investigating the case started over the bust.

He told bdnews24.com he could not work on the case as it was transferred to the counterterrorism unit the day after the incident.

The unit’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Saiful Islam said they were trying to find out the who the ninth ‘militant’ was.

“His fingerprint did not match with any of those kept at the Election Commission. No-one has come to identify the body either,” he said.

Police, looking for Islamist militants as part of a bolstered operation following the recent terror attacks, came under attack during the drive in Kalyanpur early on Tuesday.

Police say militants had their lair on the fifth floor of this building named `Taj Manzil' on Road No.5 in Kalyanpur. Photo: abdul mannan

A SWAT team later stormed the house where the suspected militants were hiding. Nine ‘militants’ were killed and another was captured alive.

Police later released photos of the dead ‘militants’ (Parental guidance is advised for juveniles to see the photo of bloodied bodies).

Eight of them have so far been identified by crosschecking information given by their families and fingerprints preserved at Election Commission’s NID database.

They have been named as Raihan Kabir alias Tarek from Rangpur, Md Abdullah from Dinajpur, Abu Hakim Nayeem from Patuakhali, Motiur Rahman from Satkhira, Zobayer Hossain from Noakhali, and Taj-ul-Haque Rashik from Dhanmondi, Akifuzzaman Khan from Gulshan, and Shehzad Rouf Arka from Basundhara, in Dhaka.

Of them, Shehzad, whose father told the media that the youth was a US citizen, is a grandson of former National Security Intelligence (NSI) chief Brigadier General Abdur Rouf.

Akifuzzaman Khan’s grandfather is M Monem Khan, the governor of erstwhile East Pakistan, who had staunchly opposed Bangladesh’s independence.

He as well as Rashik and Shehzad were North South University students, while Abdullah, Raihan, and Nayeem studied in madrasas.

Police said Raihan was the Dhaka unit coordinator of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and he had trained the Gulshan cafe attackers.