Md Joynal Abedin Khan :The attackers were highly emotional to kill females, as they were angry with fashioned girls for dressing code of Islamic dress, physicians of forensic team said.At first they killed at least six girls and then the other hostages, who were males in the Holey Artisan restaurant in the city’s Gulshan, they said. They tortured the women to death more than they did in the case of the male persons, according to investigators. They also commented that the attackers took high-power excited drug to commit the brutal attack. The autopsy reports of 20 hostages showed that they were shot dead and slaughtered except two girls, said Dr Sohel Mahmud, Assistant Professor of the Forensic Department at Dhaka Medical College (DMC). A four-member team of forensic experts led by Sohel Mahmud carried out the autopsies at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka in presence of police, the doctor said. He said that they had found eight bullets in seven bodies.Dr Sohel Mahmud thought that the hostage people were killed at the beginning of the attack, while the attackers were murdered around 7:00am of the following day. They had found wounds inflicted by sharp weapons and shooting in the two bodies, he said. The bullet injury marks were found in the bodies of six militants, the doctor said. “Some of the attackers had their fingers and wrists blown off by bombs,” he said. “All the victims were slaughtered with sharp objects like machete. This was done in the murders of some bloggers and publishers,” he said. Earlier, police moved the court for permission to carry out medical tests on the dead bodies of the gunmen from the Gulshan cafe. There were two pleas submitted to Metropolitan Magistrate Noor-un-Nabi on Monday.One sought approval for tests on samples of their blood, hair, stool, skin and clothes besides various organs. The other was for profiling their DNA.To confirm the killers’ identities, the police want to collect samples necessary from their family members. Sanowar Hossain, additional deputy commissioner of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, said the investigation was underway and the identities would be revealed once it was completed.A case has been filed with Gulshan police station in connection with the attack, and the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit is investigating it.On July 1, armed attackers entered the restaurant and took some 33 customers hostage at gunpoint. They later killed at least 17 foreigners and three Bangladeshis. Two police officials were also killed in the attack.
