Dhaka cafe victims were hacked and shot dead: Forensic experts

July 07, 2016 23:06

A three-member team of forensic experts has dismissed reports that all 20 hostages, including an Indian, were slaughtered by slitting of their throats during the brazen assault at a cafe here by a group of gunmen.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital forensic department's Assistant Professor Md Sohel Mahmud led the three-member team to conduct the autopsies at the Combined Military Hospital on Sunday.

"All the deceased had sharp weapon wounds on their heads and necks. Some were hacked on their throats too," he was quoted as saying by bdnews24.

"But most of the foreign hostages were hacked to death. Bullets were found on the bodies of seven of them and they were also hacked in the head and neck," he said.

Responding to a query, Mahmud confirmed that none of the hostages had been killed by the slitting of their throats.

He said, "One of the Italian nationals and one of the Bangladeshi women had died from trauma caused by a blunt force."

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