B'desh officials seek more samples from cafe attackers' bodies

July 20, 2016 20:32

Bangladeshi investigators have sought more samples from the bodies of the slain attackers to check whether the ISIS' 'super soldiers' carried out the country's worst terror attack at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone early this month, killing 22 people.

"Police's counter-terrorism unit has asked for samples of hair, 20 mililitres of blood among other things. So we will ';qextract them from the dead bodies," assistant professor of Forensic Medicine at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Soheil Mahmud was quoted as saying by the bdnews24.com today.

The autopsy officials took samples of the attackers' blood, teeth and flesh from their thighs to check if they were under the influence of drugs the ISIS uses to create "super soldiers", said Mahmud.

"We had collected five mililitres of their blood. But the investigators want 20 mililitres and more samples. We will collect them at a suitable time," he said.

ISIS fighters use an amphetamine-based drug in the form of a pill, Captagon, for energy and agility at the battlefront, according to investigators and military analysts.

According to experts, Captagon users can go on without sleeping for days and without feeling hungry.

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