Youth held at Dhaka cafe attack scene dies
A youth who was detained upon suspicion from the scene of Gulshan cafe attack has died today while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital.
The youth, named Shaon, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital by the police two days after the Gulshan cafe attack, hospital's police outpost sources said.
He was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital at 12:30pm today. But his condition deteriorated and died in the evening, said Prof Abdur Rahman, chief of the DMCH ICU.
Bloody and battered, he was recovered during the early Saturday morning hours of the Gulshan cafe siege by the law enforcers while a rescue mission was being carried out.
Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of Bangladesh's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, told The Daily Star he was on the suspect list after the attack.
The case filed over the Dhaka restaurant attack did not mention his name.
Abdus Sattar, father of Shaon, claimed his son was a kitchen help at Holey Artisan Bakery and was missing for four days since the terrifying July 1 terrorist attack.
Mother Maksuda Begum claimed that her son had assault marks and swellings all over his body.
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GO HOME WITH EID BONUS
Shaon had called his mother hours before the Gulshan attack to say that he received his festival bonus and would be going home on Sunday (July 3) after salary day.
"My son said he would come home with his Eid bonus and salary," said Maksuda Begum. "But instead we could not find him since July 1."
"He called me shortly after Iftar on that day (July 1) to let me know that he was coming home," she said.
But instead, hours after he hung up with the happy thought of going back home, a group of terrorists stormed into the Holey Artisan Bakery and carried out a carnage.
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