Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) is bringing the parents and an aunt of
two minor siblings, who might have been murdered in Dhaka's Banasree
area on Monday, for questioning.
This morning, Rab went to Jamalpur, the ancestral home of the siblings and where they were buried, and picked them up.
They are
being brought to Dhaka for questioning,” Lt Col Khandaker Golam Sarwar,
commanding officer of Rab-3 told The Daily Star this morning.
Nusrat Aman Aroni, 14, and her six-year-old borther Alvi Aman
were found unconscious at their apartment in Dhaka’s Rampura area last ,
according to Mohammad Amanullah, father of the victims.
It was initially believed that the children died from food poisoning
before autopsy suggested that the victims might have been murdered.
There were bruises on the bodies.
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A case is yet to be filed over the matter, according to Rafiqul
Islam, officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station. “Police will lodge a
case if family doesn’t.”
No one has been arrested over the incident. Five people have been
picked up for questioning which include a female tutor, family relatives
and security guards of the apartment.
A Rab team, led by Additional Superintendent Mostaque Ahmed, called
at the residence of Abul Malek Sarkar, the grandfather of the deceased
children, in Iqbalpur of Jamalpur town, our local correspondent reports.
They picked up Mohammad Amanullah, father of the children, his wife
Mahfuza Malek Jesmin, and an aunt Afroza Malek Nila around 11:10am, said
Solaiman, a cousin of Amanullah.
Police will also interrogate them over the incident, said OC Rafiqul Islam.
