Father, daughter among 4 killed

Four-year-old Afia Zaman Ramishya and her mother Rozina Akter, 35 were on their way to Khulna after a visit to their relatives in Bagerhat.

The duo was riding on a motorcycle with Anisuzzaman Anis, 40, the father of Afia and a businessman from Khulna.

But the child did not know this was going to be her last journey with her parents.  

A Khulna-bound bus, which was coming from the same direction, hit the bike from behind at Kathaltala area on Bagerhat-Khulna highway, police said.

The bike lost control and Anis died on the spot, while his critically injured wife and daughter were sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital, said Abdul Aziz, officer-in-charge of Katakhali Highway Police Station.

The child succumbed to her injuries at the hospital and the mother is still Commanding Officer Kamrul said Mitu got acquainted with Masud in July 2016 through Facebook.

Masud supplied her extremism provoking sermons of militant leader Jasimuddin Rahmani, urging her to work for the oppressed Muslims across the world. Rahmani is now in jail.

She also agreed when Masud asked her to sacrifice herself by fighting the government and its forces, the Rab official said.

Later, she started circulating extremism provoking images and video clips using her two fake Facebook Ids -- “Esho Allahr Pothe” and “Alor Poth Islam”.

She intended to leave her family and accept “martyrdom for the sake of Islam”, failing to radicalise her husband. She had planned to divorce her husband and marry Sumon as per the outfit's decision, Rab said.

As part of the plan, she left home on March 31 for Chittagong where Masud and Sumon arranged a house for her. The trio soon returned to Narayanganj to recruit fresh operatives in Narayanganj, Comilla and Dhaka.

According to Rab, Masud converted into Salafism through one Sami Bhai in 2005. He visited Narayanganj several times this year to recruit operatives. He used to give sermons in the meetings and met Mitu several times.

Sumon got acquainted with Masud in the late 2016 while working as a sales manager of a food product company.

Sumon got radicalised by Masud and joined JMB. He has so far recruited 10 people to the militant outfit, Rab said.

2 JMB MEN JAILED FOR 20YRS

Meanwhile, a Narayanganj court yesterday sentenced two JMB men to 20 years' imprisonment each and fined them Tk 20,000, in default, to serve six months more in jail.

Judge Md Abdul Hannan of Special Tribunal-7 in Narayanganj gave the order in a case filed under the explosives act with Sonargaon Police Station.

The convicts are -- Saiful Islam, 33, and Mofizul Islam, 31, -- hailing from Narayanganj district.

SM Wazed Ali Khokhon, public prosecutor of Narayanganj court, said Rab arrested Saiful from Tangail on December 29 in 2006 along with a huge amount of arms and explosives.

Based on his information, Rab carried out a raid at Mofizul's house in Sonargaon of Narayanganj and arrested him. They also seized 19 hand grenades and bomb making materials from his possession.