Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque on Saturday instructed senior police officers to take tough action against those involved in the killings of two foreign nationals in the space of 5 days.
The IGP gave the instruction at a special meeting held in the wake of the killings at the police headquarters in the city with him in the chair.
Barely a week into the killing of Cesare Tavella, 50, an Italian national in capital Dhaka, Hoshi Kunio, 65, a Japanese national was gunned down by unknown miscreants at Alutari in Kaunia upazila in Rangpur district on Saturday.
Sources at the police headquarters said the country’s top police officer also called upon the police officers to come out with success in digging out the mysteries of the two foreign national killings, in line with its past successes in curbing militancy, terrorism and crimes.