Police have identified a suspected militant killed along with Neo-JMB leader Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and another 'militant' in Narayanganj raid.
The deceased, Fazle Rabbi, was a student of a polytechnic institution in Jessore, police counterterrorism unit chief Monirul Islam said.
Monirul said on Saturday night that it became possible for Rabbi's identity to be confirmed through a National ID card on him.
Rabbi, the son of a former college principal, left home in April and went 'missing'.
The other 'militant' killed in the raid may be 'Tawsif' from Dhaka's Dhanmondi, Monirul said.
"We are checking the information we have," he added.
Monirul said Jessore police had publicised Rabbi's photo along with those of four other missing youths, suspected to have joined militants, after the Gulshan cafe carnage.
Rabbi, a second year student of physics at Jessore MM College, had been missing since Apr 5, his relatives have claimed.
His father Habibullah filed a general diary at the local police station on Apr 7 over his son going 'missing' from their house at Kismat Nawaparha in the town.
He had then told reporters that his son had applied for a cancellation of his studentship at the college.
On Saturday morning, police raided a house in Narayanganj's Paikparha and killed three suspected militants.
One of them was identified as Bangladeshi-Canadian Tamim, the suspected Gulshan attack mastermind, described as the Islamic State's Bangladesh chapter chief by some international media.
Police announced a Tk 2 million reward for information leading to Tamim after the cafe attack.
The trio attacked police with grenades and firearms when the security forces asked them to surrender, prompting the police to retaliate, officials said.
TAWSIF WAS WITH NIBRAS?
Monirul said the other militant killed in Narayanganj was Tawsif from Dhanmondi, but could not confirm.
bdnews24.com earlier ran a report on a youth named Tawsif Hossain and another suspected militant Shehzad Rauf Arka, who had ‘gone missing’ and possibly joined militants.
Tawsif Hossain was also from Dhanmondi.
Shehzad was killed in the Kalyanpur raid along with eight others.
A highly placed source in the government earlier told the news agency that intelligence agents, after trying to trace the two youths through their passport numbers, suspect they have not left the country yet.
Officers investigating cases related to militants also suspect they had been with dead attackers, North South University students Nibras Islam and Abir Rahman, in Jhenaidah.
Nibras, who had been in Malaysia to study at Monash University, was killed towards the end of the Gulshan cafe siege on July 1.
Abir was gunned down during an attack on Eid day in Sholakia on July 7.
The investigators say all those who had been in the rented house in Jhenaidah were involved in the two terror attacks and are still in the country.
There had been six others with Nibras and Abir in Jhenaidah.
The eight youths left the house by the end of June, the landlord said.
Abir rented two rooms in Sholakia days before the attack, saying four persons would stay in the rooms.
The security forces raided remote shoals in Bogra, suspecting the Gulshan and Sholakia attackers might have undertaken training in camps there.
The intelligence agents suspect Shehzad and Tawsif had been in the shoal in Bogra.
Shehzad, from Dhaka’s Baridhara, studied in Monash University with Nibras, who reportedly left home on Feb 3, the same day Shehzad and Tawsif went ‘missing’.
Tawsif, son of ‘Azmal’, a doctor, lived in Dhanmondi.
Tawsif’s cousin Ahmed Shammur Rayan had been arrested for his alleged links to IS.
He was freed on bail and is now staying in his house in Moghbazar.
His father has denied his son’s link to militants.
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Source: The Financial Express