Staff Reporter :An unknown assailant on Tuesday stabbed a military police in Dhaka city’s high security zone at Kochukhet checkpost adjacent to the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) office on Tuesday morning.Immediately after the incident, law enforcers from different agencies chased the attacker from different directions and caught hold of him, Syed Qaiyum Zaman Khan, Deputy Commissioner of Mirpur zone of police, told The New Nation on Tuesday. The attacker was promptly taken to the DGFI office. He said, the injured military police has been identified as Samidul Islam, 29. “Samidul Islam is now undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka. We have detained three persons in this connection from the area for interrogation,” Qaiyum Zaman Khan said.However, he declined to disclose the names of the attacker or any detained person due to what he said ‘for the sake of investigation’.The incident took place hardly six days after industrial cop Mukul Hossain was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants at a checkpost on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital. Earlier on October 22, an assistant sub-inspector Ibrahim Mollah of Darus Salam Police Station was also stabbed to death by a youth at a checkpoint in the capital’s Gabtoli area. Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) in a statement on Tuesday said ‘a pedestrian’ with a sharp weapon hit an on-duty military police on his head from behind. The military police received minor injuries in the attack, the statement said, adding that the on duty other military personnel chased the attacker and arrested him. “An investigation has already started to know the details about the incident,” added the ISPR statement. According to witnesses and members of law enforcing agencies, defying ban when a rickshaw suddenly appeared in Kochukhet checkpost area at about 9.30am, the on duty military police Samidul Islam stopped it and started questioning the rickshaw-puller about violation of the ban. “As the on duty military police Samidul was questioning the rickshaw-puller, a youth, 33, hit on Samidul’s head and neck with a sharp weapon from behind,” a witness said.He said, soon after the incident the other law enforcers of the checkpost and other military personnel rushed to the spot and chased the attacker. “Being chased, the attacker entered a five storied building near North Kafrul High School and took shelter there. When locals encircled the attacker, he tried to make them frighten with knife. The security guard of the building then locked the collapsible gate,” the witness said.Additional law enforcers from Kafrul Police Station, military police and plainclothes military officials took position around the building and asked the attacker to surrender otherwise gunshot would be fired on him. After a 15-minute operation the law enforces captured the attacker and took him to the DGFI office. When asked about the whereabouts of the rickshaw-puller, deputy commissioner of Mirpur zone of police said it is not right time to say about him for the sake of information. Asaduzzaman Mia, Police Commissioner, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), told journalists as police had remained alert, the attacker has been arrested. “We have obtained information that as identified vested quarters’ trial is on, their followers are engaged in carrying out such attack. We are investigating the incident,” he said on the sidelines of a programme at the DMP headquarters.The DMP Commissioner said the identified quarters, those who burnt people to death and tried to make people’s lives unsafe under the cover of movement, are now engaged in such attacks.
