Top anti- terror police officer’s wife, Christian man brutally killed
Dhaka, June 5: The wife of a police official known for battling Islamist extremism was shot dead in south- eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in what police suspected was the latest in a series of attacks by militants in the mainly Muslim South Asian nation. Three assailants riding a motorcycle stabbed and then shot Mahmuda Aktar, 33, when she was on her way home after putting her son onto a school bus in the port city of Chittagong, said Humayan Kabir, deputy police commissioner of Chittagong.
“She was stabbed first. Then they shot her in the head three times,” Mr Kabir said. Her husband, police superintendent Babul Aktar, played an important role in apprehending top militants in Bangladesh’s southeast and Mr Kabir said the killing could have militant links. Mr Aktar, who was recently posted to police headquarters in the capital, Dhaka, busted several hideouts of the banned group Jamaat- ul-Mujahideen, which has been active in the recent surge of violence.
His team also arrested one of the group’s leaders, who was later killed in a grenade blast during a police raid in October. The government has launched a security crackdown on Islamist militant groups who want to impose strict Islamic law in Bangladesh. Also on Sunday, a Christian businessman was hacked to death in Bangladesh on
Mahmuda Aktar, the wife of superintendent of police Babul Aktar, who led drives against militants and drug cartels, was stabbed and shot dead by 3 bike- borne assailants in front of her minor son in Chittagong
Sunil Gomes, 65, was murdered near a church in Banpara village in an attack claimed by the Islamic State
Sunday by machete- wielding men near a church in an attack claimed by the Islamic State.
Sunil Gomes, 65, was murdered near a church in Banpara village, home to one of the oldest Christian communities in Bangladesh, in northwestern Notore district.
The assailants fled immediately from the scene after killing Gomes. His body was recovered from his grocery shop, police superintendent Shyamal Mukherjee said. “We are yet to know the details, but our policemen are gathering information about the murder,” Mukherjee said. But hours after the incident, US- based SITE Intelligence Group quoted Islamic State’s “Amaq agency” to report that the terror group claimed responsibility for the murder.