Staff Reporter :
Police have interrogated the 11 Bangladeshi workers who returned from Sri Lanka after having reportedly worked at a factory there belonging to one of the suicide bombers involved in the Easter terror attacks on April 21 that left 253 people dead.
Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police, said the repatriated workers were mere employees in a copper factory “Colossus Metal” owned by Ibrahim Insaf Ahmed in Sri Lanka.
“The workers, most of who hail from Tangail district, went to Sri Lanka on tourist visas and had no work permit. Some of their visas had also expired.”
The factory owner Ibrahim died in the attacks. Later Sri Lankan authorities returned the Bangladeshi workers, as well as other foreign workers of that factory through respective embassies, Monirul said.”We have interrogated them and are trying to collect information about the deceased owner and his relatives. But the workers could not give any information about the owner as they had very little communication with the boss.”
He added, “The interrogation is still ongoing. So far we have known that these workers had no involvement in the attacks. They could not give us any information about it.”
There will be no legal action against them if they have no involvement in the matter whatsoever, said the CTTC chief.
Responding to a journalist’s query, Monirul said: “No criminal records have been found yet against these 11 Bangladeshi workers. However, further inquiry is still underway.”
Responding to another query about possible risk of attack in Bangladesh, he said, “The whole world is facing the risk of terror attacks. South Asian countries including ourselves are not out of danger. However, compared to other places, we have no such serious threats of attacks in here. “Through various intelligence sources, we came to know that a retaliatory tendency has awakened among militant and extremists organizations across the globe following the New Zealand terror attack that left 50 people dead,” Monirul added.
