Staff Reporter :
Police have collected DNA samples of the family members of seven militants out of nine killed in a joint raid at their hideout in the city’s Kalyanpur area in July.
The samples were collected at the forensic laboratory of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that will have handed over to the family after cross-checking as per order of court.
“We’ve collected samples from relatives of seven out of eight identified militants, said Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
The DNA samples will be cross-checked to match with the seven identified militants, said a DMP official, preferring anonymity. In line with the government decision, the bodies would be handed over to the families if the samples matched after cross-check.
The seven militants are: Abdullah from Dinajpur, Abu Hakim Nayeem from Patuakhali, Motiar Rahman from Satkhira, Jubayer Hossain from Noakhali, Taj-ul-Haque Rashiq from city’s Dhanmondi, Atiquzzaman Khan from Gulshan and Shazad Rouf Arko from Bashundhara in the capital.
Police have identified the seven after matching their fingerprints with those on their National Identity (NID) cards, the DC said.
Detective Branch (DB) of police disclosed their addresses and photos on their national ID cards alongside the photos of the corpses, he said.
DMP also uploaded the addresses and pictures of the seven on its news portal and also on its official Facebook page, the police official said.
The seven bodies of the militants killed in the Kalyanpur joint raid have been kept at Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s mortuary, while bodies of the Gulshan attackers are at the Combined Military Hospital.
The DNA samples of the Gulshan attackers have already been collected earlier, the police official said.
Police have collected DNA samples of the family members of seven militants out of nine killed in a joint raid at their hideout in the city’s Kalyanpur area in July.
The samples were collected at the forensic laboratory of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that will have handed over to the family after cross-checking as per order of court.
“We’ve collected samples from relatives of seven out of eight identified militants, said Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
The DNA samples will be cross-checked to match with the seven identified militants, said a DMP official, preferring anonymity. In line with the government decision, the bodies would be handed over to the families if the samples matched after cross-check.
The seven militants are: Abdullah from Dinajpur, Abu Hakim Nayeem from Patuakhali, Motiar Rahman from Satkhira, Jubayer Hossain from Noakhali, Taj-ul-Haque Rashiq from city’s Dhanmondi, Atiquzzaman Khan from Gulshan and Shazad Rouf Arko from Bashundhara in the capital.
Police have identified the seven after matching their fingerprints with those on their National Identity (NID) cards, the DC said.
Detective Branch (DB) of police disclosed their addresses and photos on their national ID cards alongside the photos of the corpses, he said.
DMP also uploaded the addresses and pictures of the seven on its news portal and also on its official Facebook page, the police official said.
The seven bodies of the militants killed in the Kalyanpur joint raid have been kept at Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s mortuary, while bodies of the Gulshan attackers are at the Combined Military Hospital.
The DNA samples of the Gulshan attackers have already been collected earlier, the police official said.
