Three militants were shot in the head during Narayanganj raid: Forensic expert

The three terror suspects killed during a police operation at Narayanganj were shot in the head, the doctor who autopsied the bodies has said.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 28 August 2016, 01:47 PM
Updated : 28 August 2016, 01:47 PM

Their autopsies were done at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after the raid on their Narayanganj hideout on Saturday morning. 
 
“All three have been shot in their heads,” Soheil Mahmud, assistant professor of forensic medicine at DMCH, told bdnews24.com on Sunday. 
 
“We do not know their identities. But the person who the media is calling Tamim, we found a bullet in his head.”
 
Bullets had passed through the heads of the other two militants, he said. “Their hands bear wounds from bomb splinters.”   
 
The counter-terror unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police surrounded a three-storey house at Paikparha graveyard area after learning that Islamist militants were hiding inside. 
 
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and other security agencies joined in later.
 
Police have started a case over their operation against the three unidentified suspects.
 
The case under the Anti-Terrorism Act accuses Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, head of the ‘revived Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)’ but does not identify the other two.
 
But, the counter-terrorism unit has identified one of them as a physics student of Jessore’s Michael Modhushudhan College. Police are assuming the other slain suspect is one Tausif Hossain who lived in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi.