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Bangladesh
Three identified over Xulhaz-Tonoy killing
2016-04-30
[Dhaka Tribune] Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said three people had been identified over Monday's murder of LGBT rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tonoy.

Talking to news hounds at his Dhanmondi residence in the capital, he said: "Concerning the investigation into the double murder, we are moving forward in the right direction. We have so far identified three people in this connection, as you have seen in newspaper reports.

"But I cannot reveal the details right now. Everything will be disclosed after a few days," he said.

Kamal said some of those involved in the killing of bloggers had also been identified. "Some have been brought to trial and the rest will be tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
soon."

The Detective Branch official involved in the investigation into the double murder also said they had managed to identify a few suspects and were proceeding in the right direction.

Investigators are trying to arrest the killers using CCTV footage and a bag left at the scene by the killers, sources said.

Detectives suspect that Xulhaz was targeted for his advocacy of homosexuality and that the killers were members of banned Death Eater outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team. Ansarullah Bangla Team members are operating under the banner of Ansar al-Islam after the group was banned.

Intelligence officials said Xulhaz and Tonoy were killed in a fashion similar to the previous murders committed by Ansar al-Islam members.

They said the bag left by the perpetrators proved to be very helpful in the probe.

An intelligence official said a mobile phone was found in the bag and the persons whom the killers maintained contact with using the phone were under surveillance.

A high official of the Detective Branch, asking not to be named, said the killers used advanced software to send information to one another.

"They used protected text for communication. The text was removed within a minute after it was sent. Detectives are trying to recover the message with the help of technology."

Monirul Islam, chief of the counter-terrorism and trans-national crime unit, said they are using different strategies to catch the killers.

"Several teams are working to identify and capture the killers. We are currently analysing the clues. Hopefully, the killers will be arrested and brought to book soon," he added.

On Monday, Xulhaz was killed in his Kalabagan residence in the capital along with Tonoy.

Xulhaz, an official of the United States Agency for International Development and a former protocol officer of the US embassy in Dhaka, was a cousin of former foreign minister Dipu Moni.

Tonoy was also an LGBT and theatre activist.
Posted by:Fred

#4  We used to get odd sutures as kids at the emergency clinic. Mainly in the afternoon when the doc had been drinking.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-04-30 22:27  

#3  Stop it, I still got the odd suture!
Posted by: Shipman   2016-04-30 21:21  

#2  
A workshop, where jazzy old thespian
Meets dizzy Strassbergian lesbi@n:
"Let's improv on blowing!"
The trumpet kept growing.
"Great affect! It's frankly Gillespian!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-04-30 16:59  

#1  Tonoy was also an LGBT and theatre activist

What a coincidence.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-04-30 14:09  

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