Dhaka, Jan 28 (bdnewsw24.com)--Bazlul Huda and Mohiuddin Ahmed were the first two to be executed minutes after Wednesday midnight, according to one of the officials overseeing the process.
Five ambulances arrived just after midnight and were parked outside the Central Jail as preparations were on to execute the five convicts within hours of the president rejecting the last mercy petition late Wednesday evening.
Police and elite RAB were guarding all roads leading to the Central Jail in densely-populated Old Dhaka, with a four-layer security blanket around it.
Prisons guards, RAB, armed police and Metropolitan police have formed the layers near and around the Nazimuddin Road jail, according to chief correspondent Sumon Mahmud.
All five Bangabandhu convicts are set to be executed in the Dhaka Central Jail, according to a highly-placed government source.
The home secretary arrived at 11:25pm Wednesday at the Central Jail Gate in Dhaka, preceded by just five minutes by a police car carrying a number of coffins, putting to rest all speculations about executions of the five.
The Dhaka civil surgeon. district magistrate and additional district magistrate had entered the Jail at 10:30pm.
At 11:30pm, the DMP commissioner was seen walking into the high-security Central Jail.
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