Bodies of Dhaka cafe attack militants lie unclaimed
July 30, 2016 23:23
Family members of five militants, who carried out the deadly Dhaka cafe terror attack killing 22 people, have not come forward to claim their bodies, a media report said on Saturday.
The bodies of five militants, who were shot dead in a gunfight with security forces at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan on July 2, are kept at the Combined Military Hospital.
"No one has filed any written application to claim the bodies," said Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station.
Islamist militants launched a terror attack on a posh restaurant in Dhaka's upmarket Gulshan diplomatic zone on July 1 killing 22 people, including 19-year-old Indian girl Tarishi Jain, among 20 foreigners and two police officers while six suspected militants were gunned down in the commando operation.
Five of the militants were identified as Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Sabeh Mubasheer, Khairul Islam Payel and Shafiqul Islam Ujjal, the Daily Star reported.
The body of chef Saiful Islam, who has been mentioned in in the report as an accused, also remains at the mortuary of the hospital.
However, police said only Saiful's family verbally wanted to take his body, but the law enforcers have yet to receive any written application from them in this regard.
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