Jahid's wife left days before raid
Jebunnahar Shila, wife of Major (retd) Jahidul Islam, had left the Azimpur militant den with her one-year-old daughter four days before Saturday's raid.
Police say they came to know this after talking to Shila's six-year-old daughter whom she had left behind and other suspects caught from the den.
Law enforcers have been hunting Shila as a key militant suspect.
Jahid, who officials say was the military commander of “Neo JMB” and trainer of Gulshan and Sholakia attackers, was killed in a police raid in the capital's Rupnagar on September 2.
Law enforcers rescued two other children -- a 14-year-old boy and a 10-month-old girl -- from the Azimpur house.
On Saturday, the two baby girls were sent to the Victim Support Centre.
The boy was taken in by detectives for questioning. He was under the custody of counterterrorism officials last night.
Investigators think the suspected militant who died during the raid is the boy's father. And one of the three injured women caught from the scene could be his mother.
Physicians who conducted autopsy of the dead said the suspect “committed suicide by slitting his throat”.
Sohel Mahmud, assistant professor of forensic medicine department at Dhaka Medical College, told The Daily Star that the cut on his throat was three inches long and one-and-half inches deep. It was caused by a sharp weapon.
The man used to go by different names, including Shamshed, Jamshed and Abdul Karim.
Using the name Abdul Karim, he rented an apartment in Bashundhara residential area where the Gulshan café attackers lived for a while. He used the same name renting another apartment at Pallabi, according to Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of the DMP.
“He rented the apartment at Azimpur about a month ago using the name of Jamshed,” said Masudur.
The 14-year-old, however, gave police another name of the man and a Rajshahi address which was found wrong, said Masudur.
The police official said investigators believe one of the three injured women is the mother of the 10-month baby. Her husband, another suspected militant, was not at the den, he added.
Meanwhile, two of the five policemen injured during the raid, were sent to Square Hospital for treatment yesterday while the rest went to Rajarbagh Police Lines.
DMCH officials say the injured women were admitted to the hospital with the names Shaila, Sharmin and Khadija.
Police, however, said the names were likely to be false.
One of injured women was shot in her stomach while the two others were hacked on different parts of their bodies, said DMCH doctors.
Police say they recovered five to six computers from the scene and those were apparently for communicating with other militants at home and abroad.
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