One of three slain Nakhalparha militant suspects is schoolboy from Chittagong

Police have confirmed one of the three suspects killed by RAB in an anti-militancy drive on a house in Dhaka’s Nakhalparha is a schoolboy from Chittagong.

Officials of Chittagong Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch identified the suspect as Nafis Ul Islam after RAB released photos of two suspects, seeking information about them on Thursday. 

CMP DB Additional Deputy Commissioner AAM Humayun Kabir told bdnews24.com that Nafis’ father Nazrul Islam filed a general diary with the police on Oct 7 last year to report that his son had gone missing.

The search for Nafis led to the detection of a suspected militant hideout in the port city’s Madarbarhi on Jan 1 and the arrest of two ‘members’ of banned outfit Jama’atul Majiheedin Bangladesh or JMB, the detective said.

According to him, Nafis, an eighth grader of Kazim Ali High School, lived with his family in an area near Chittagong College.  

His father said in the GD Nafis went missing after leaving home on Oct 6.

The attackers of Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan were also students and had gone missing after leaving home.

Until now, two of the three killed in the Jan 12 RAB raid in Dhaka’s Nakhalparha have been identified.

The other identified suspect is Mejbah Uddin from Comilla.