Netrokona, Dec 10 (BDNEWS) – Three days after the Netrokona blast, the main question haunts people and police that who was the suicide bomber -- Raisuddin or the unknown teenage boy or Yadav -- all killed in the explosion.
Although town dwellers do not believe that Yadav Das could be the suicide bomber, police detained his parents Satyen Chandra Das and Arati Rani Das.
Police said they were not arrested and will be released after questioning. Earlier, police had detained Yadav's brother and sister, and later released.
As Raisuddin is another suspect, police detained his younger brother Shahid Mian.
Police also held two other persons - Sujon Biswas Bimol and Amal Chandra Sarkar.
Ripon, who had accompanied Yadav, and has been undergoing treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH), is virtually kept confined by the intelligence agents.
Apart from Yadav and Raisuddin, another suspected suicide bomber is an unknown teenage boy, aged about 17.
Doctors who performed autopsy of the boy said his wrists blown off, limbs separated and half of the face deformed. They also found gunpowder in his chest and back. As none came to receive his body, Anjumane Mafidul Islam arranged his burial.
The doctors also found the face of Raisuddin burnt seriously while holes in body caused by splinters. The body of Yadav also bore many splinters.
The tiny town is yet to get rid of mourning and fear.
The body of Sudipta Paul Shelly, organising secretary of Netrokona district Udichi, who succumbed in the MMCH on Friday, reached Netrokona in the night and was cremated.
Hundreds of people gathered at her Ajahar Road residence to have a last glimpse to the popular cultural organiser.
Udichi and civil society members held a 15-minute silent protest from 11am Saturday. Leaders and workers of Awami League and 14-party alliance joined the silent programme.
The AL tried to bring out a procession in the afternoon in support of Sunday's dawn-to-dusk hartal in Netrokona. But police confined the procession keeping the slogan-chanting activists near the party office.
Later, district AL leaders Shamsuzzoha, Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru and Matior Rahman Khan and NAP leader Mozammel Haq Bachchu addressed a protest meeting.
Krishak Sramik Janata League president Bangabir Kader Siddiqui, MP, meanwhile visited Netrokona and said the government is pointing its finger at Yadav to divert the current spell of bombing towards another directive.
Whip and district BNP president Abdul Karim Abbasi, MP, however, in a statement said the opposition is not responding to government's call for dialogue and provoking the bombers.
BDNEWS/2027 hrs
