Another militant identified
Hours after Rab released photographs of two “JMB militants” killed in the capital's West Nakhalpara raid, Chittagong police confirmed that one of them was Nafis Ul Islam who had remained missing from the port city since October 6.
“His parents confirmed that the boy in black dress is Nafis,” said AAM Humayun Kabir, additional deputy commissioner of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.
Talking to The Daily Star last night, Nafis's father Nazrul Islam said they identified Nafis after police showed them the photographs released by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).
The investigation into Nafis's disappearance led the CT officials to bust a “Neo JMB” den on January 2 in Chittagong city's Sadarghat area, arresting two suspected militants.
They also recovered 10 handmade grenades, two suicide vests, and two sketch maps of city's Sadarghat Police Station, which the militants had planned to attack, according to CT officials in Chittagong.
Nafis, 16, son of Nazrul Islam, was an eighth grader of Kazem Ali High School. He went missing from his Sirajuddowla's residence in Chittagong city on October 6.
He left the house in the name of attending Juma prayers. His family filed a general diary (GD) with the city's Chawakbazar Police Station the next day.
With Nafis, two out of the three suspected militants killed in the Nakhalpara den were identified.
Two firearms, three suicide vests, and three improvised explosive devices were also recovered during the raid on the fourth floor of six-storey “Ruby Villa”, several hundred yards away the Prime Ministers' Office.
Another dead “militant” was earlier identified as Mezba Uddin, son of Enamul Huq and Tahmina Akhtar of Vaduara village under Monohorgonj upazila in Comilla.
CT officials in Chittagong said Nafis's organisational name was "Abdullah". He was at the Chittagong den for a few days. However, he left the flat before police conducted the operation.
In the raid, police arrested two suspected militants Ashfaqur Rahman alias Abu Mahir Al Bangali, 22, deputy commander (military wing), and Rakibul Hasan alias Abu Taishir Al Bangali, 19. Nafis had communications with them, the officials said.
Nafiz's father Nazrul earlier said his son took around Tk 60,000 from the shop before leaving on October 6, just two days before his test examination.
Family members said Nazrul divorced Nafis's mother in 2010 and later married another woman after coming from Oman. After the incident, Nafis used to live with his father but he seemed withdrawn. He was also not attentive to his study.
After he went "missing", his father Nazrul found some Islamic books and papers in his room which were handed over to police.
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