Cops clueless about murder
Law enforcers are still without a clue about the motive behind the killing of a Saudi embassy official near his residence in the capital's Gulshan area early Tuesday.
Police seized a CCTV camera from a building near which Khalaf Al Ali, a Saudi national, was shot dead, but it does not contain any footage helpful to them in investigating the incident.
Khandker Lutful Kabir, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Gulshan division), said the CCTV camera was seized hoping that it might contain footage showing the white car by which the killers fled the spot. But it proved to be of no help as the camera was being operated irregularly and improperly, he said, when contacted last night.
The embassy official, who used to reside on Road 120, was shot around 35 yards away from his residence.
Lutful Kabir also said police were yet to ascertain how many persons took part in the killing as well as where and how Al Ali had spent over two hours since leaving his residence at 11:00pm till returning near it at 1:15am.
Meanwhile, around 40 hours after the incident, Sub-inspector Mosharraf Hossain of Gulshan Police Station, who had rushed bullet-hit Al Ali to United Hospital, filed a case around 4:30pm yesterday without accusing anybody.
DMP Additional Deputy Commissioner Nizamul Haque Mollah said the Saudi embassy had first asked the foreign ministry for taking legal action and later asked police to file the case.
Mosharraf told this correspondent, “I rescued bullet-hit Al Ali from the spot around 1:20am (on Tuesday) in an unconscious state and rushed him to United Hospital where the doctors declared him dead."
Contacted, Dr Abu Sayeed MM Rahman, a director of United Hospital, said the doctors declared Al Ali dead at 5:15am on Tuesday although his pulse and blood pressure could not be felt since the time he was brought to the hospital.
Lutful Kabir said security measures have been beefed up in the diplomatic zone in Gulshan with deployment of additional forces and intensified surveillance.
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