The murky world of Kishoreganj attacker
Those who attacked police personnel near the Sholakia Eid congregation on Thursday had visited the area on 27th Ramadan (Saturday) to give final touches to their plans to carry out the deadly assault, said a local teacher quoting an alleged attacker who was captured after an hour-long battle with law enforcers.
The alleged attacker was undergoing treatment at Kishoreganj Sadar Hospital for bullet wounds and was responding “normally” to questions from locals and police, witnesses told The Daily Star.
“My name is Abu Mukadil … I am 19 years old,” a local teacher quoted him as saying.
The Daily Star is not naming the teacher for safety reasons.
The gun, bomb and machete attack left two police officers and a woman from a nearby house dead. Police later shot one alleged attacker dead.
The attack happened about an hour before the largest Eid congregation of the country was to take place.
It came when the country is reeling from the July 1 attack on a Gulshan café when militants killed 22 people -- 20 hostages, 17 of them foreigners, and two police officers.
According to locals, Mukadil is a madrasa student from Dinajpur. He, however, did not disclose the name of his madrasa.
“Many of us asked him to tell us the names of their leaders but he refused to do so,” said a local politician.
“We were asked not to say anything about our leaders. But five of us carried out the attack as instructed,” said the boy who “looked so normal” that those present at the hospital were stunned.
According to the alleged attacker, his father is an electronics mechanic in Dinajpur.
The two were wearing similar dresses -- long panjabis up to the knee and jeans trousers with special pockets to keep machetes and arms.
Police at the hospital said Mukadil continued fighting the law enforcers with revolver in one hand machete on the other.
“But he sustained bullet injuries and fell to the ground and we captured him,” said the officer-in-charge (investigation) of Kishoreganj Sadar Police Station.
Mukadil was later shifted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
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