Wife of top police officer shod dead in Bangladesh

June 05, 2016 13:01

The wife of a top Bangladeshi police officer who carried out several raids against militants was stabbed and shot dead today by three bike-borne assailants in front of her minor son in the port city of Chittagong, the latest attack by suspected extremists, police said.

Mahmuda Aktar, 33, was targeted by the gunmen at around 6:45 am (local time) while she was on her way to drop her first-grader son to a nearby bus stop for school in Chittagong.

She was the wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Aktar, now posted at the police headquarters in Dhaka. Babul has led several raids on militant hideouts and investigated several terror-related cases as the additional deputy commissioner with the Detective Branch in Chittagong.

Babul, who was promoted in April, played a key role in nabbing top militants and busting their hideouts in the southern coastal district. It was his investigations which led to the busting of a hideout of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and arrest of its military wing chief Mohamed Javed in October last year.

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