Police unsure of Hasnat's involvement

Counter Terrorism Unit Chief Monirul Islam today said that police are yet to confirm about the involvement of former private university teacher, Hasnat Karim, with the gruesome Gulsan café attack.

 

The Counter Terrorism Unit boss said this while talking to reporters at Dhaka Metropolitan Police media centre on Monday.

 

While chatting with journalists, he also said, Hasnat was sent to the Joint Interrogation Cell for interrogation. We are yet to receive the report in this regard.

 

Earlier on August 4, Hasnat and Tahmid were arrested under Section 54 on suspicion of having links with the Gulshan attackers.

 

Hasnat Karim, a former teacher of North South University and UK citizen, and Tahmid Hasib, a student of a university in Toronto, were witness to the bloody carnage inside the restaurant.

 

Twenty hostages -- nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, one Bangladeshi American and two Bangladeshis -- were killed in the terror attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan on July 1.

 

Besides, two senior police officers -- Banani Police Station officer-in-charge Salauddin Ahmed Khan and Detective Branch assistant commissioner Robiul Islam -- were killed when they tried to rescue the hostages.