Sitakunda raid: 2 'militants' were missing youths from Dhaka, cops suspect

Police suspected that two of the four militants killed during Wednesday’s raid at Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong were cousins and went missing from their residences in Mirpur of Dhaka last year.

Two others -- a woman and a man -- were the sister and brother-in-law of arrested militant Jasim, who gave the information about the “Neo JMB” den to law enforcers, police suspected. Jasim and his wife along with their child were arrested hours before the raid at Chhayaneer in Premtala area.

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According to media reports and police sources, the two cousins-- Ahmed Rafid Al Hasan and Aiad Hasan-- had remained traceless since August 9 last year. The two, both from well-off families, left their Purbo Monipur residences in Dhaka on the same day. They completed their A-levels from reputed English medium schools in the capital.

Aiad’s mother Munmun Ahmed had lodged a general diary with Mirpur Police Station following the missing.

Superintendent of Police in Chittagong Nure Alam Mina, at a press briefing over the Sitakunda raid yesterday, said, “We have got the militants’ primary identities. But we cannot confirm it before DNA test and other examinations”.  

“We are suspecting that two of the four militants were the two youths who went missing from Mirpur. And primarily we came to know that the other two bodies are of sister and brother-in-law of the militant who, along with his wife, was held from another den,” he said.