Police today handed over blood samples of the Gulshan café attackers to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for a
chemical test in their laboratory.
Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Media wing, confirmed it to The Daily Star.
Doctors on Wednesday collected hair and blood samples from the bodies
of six “terrorists” to ascertain whether they had been under the
influence of drugs while “carrying out”
the attack on a Gulshan café.
A forensic team of Dhaka Medical College Hospital collected the
samples on request of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of
the DMP.
The move came amid media reports that militants, especially members
of the Islamic State, are popping addictive pills, which help “fuel
their fury”, before attacking the victims.
The six dead include the café's pizza chef Saiful Islam who investigators say was one of the attackers. His family, however, claimed he was innocent.
Blood samples of the family members of the six men were also
collected on Wednesday at the lab of the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) in the capital.
On July 1, terrorists stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in the high
security diplomatic zone in Gulshan-2, killing 20 hostages, mostly
foreigners. Two police officials were also killed.
