2 more BDR men die

Two more BDR jawans died in the last two days raising the BDR death toll to 46 since the paramilitary mutiny in February 25-26, 2009.
Of these 46 deaths, autopsies of 11 BDR members were conducted through the New Market police. Quoting the earlier autopsy reports, New Market police confirmed that two of these jawans were killed. The victims were lance nayek Mobarak Hossain of Battalion-29 and havildar Mahiuddin of Battalion-28 of Chittagong.
Mobarak Hossain died on March 23 while Mahiuddin on May 5 at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Earlier this year, families of the two jawans brought allegations of murder.
BDR sources said they had submitted all the documents regarding the death incidents of the jawans to the four-member committee formed by the home ministry to investigate the death incidents.
They, however, said that they don't have any information about the post-mortem reports as those were submitted to the police.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque told The Daily Star that they would decide about accepting any cases regarding the deaths after investigating the incidents.
Meanwhile, Nayek Nurul Amin, 48, of Patuakhali, died of cardiac arrest yesterday around 11:00am, said Lt Col Shahidul Islam, commander of 37 BDR Battalion.
His body has been sent to Patuakhali, added the commander.
Nurul Amin was serving at Khanpur Border Outpost (BOP) under Talaimari BDR Company in Rajshahi. He had been suffering from hypertension and diabetes for last several years and fell sick in the early morning while he was on duty at the BOP, said Ayub Ali, commander of Talaimari BDR Company.
Nurul Amin was rushed to Talaimari Padma ghat by a speedboat and then taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. He was declared dead there. His autopsy report read that he died of cardiac arrest.
Another BDR member Shawkat Osman, 28, died at Mitford Hospital Sunday night. He was an accused in the BDR mutiny and was at the Kashimpur Jail.
Osman fell sick in the jail on Saturday and was taken to Mitford Hospital Sunday afternoon where he died at night, said sources from the Kotwali police.