Wasim shot SP’s wife Mitu, CMP chief tells
Chittagong court records confessional statement of 2 detainees
Motaleb Mia Wasim, a professional criminal from Chittagong, gunned down top police official’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, the police chief of port city said today.
Wasim, 27, of Rangunia upazila of Chittagong, fired at Mitu and Anwar Hossain, 28, of Fatikchhari upazila in the same district, was among several others who helped the main attackers, Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Iqbal Bahar said.
“It was a targeted killing,” he added.
Meanwhile, a Chittagong court recorded the statement of two detainees after showing them arrested in the case filed in connection with the killing of the SP’s wife.
Wasim and Anwar, both professional criminals from Rangunia upazila, were giving their confessional statements before the court under Section 164, the CMP chief said at a press briefing.
On the morning of June 5, three assailants killed Mahmuda Khanam Mitu near her Nizam Road house in the port city when she was taking her son to put him on a school bus.
A CMP official told The Daily Star they identified from the CCTV footage all the three who directly took part in the murder and had already detained and interrogated them.
The murder was initially thought to be an act of militants who are suspected to have killed some 50 people over the past three years. Responsibility for some of the attacks was claimed by Islamic State and Ansar Al Islam, which claims to be the Bangladesh branch of al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
The government denies any IS presence in the country, and blames the BNP-Jamaat and homegrown militants linked with them for the killings meant to create unrest in the country.