BANGLADESH NEWS
Killing of Saudi Embassy official Khalaf Al Ali was a simple incident of mugging, detectives revealed on Wednesday quoting the four persons arrested in connection with the murder.
A bullet flied out of a .22 bore pistol of a mugger during a brawl with the embassy officer when the gang stopped him for mugging near his Gulshan house on March 6, said Mollah Nazrul Islam, deputy commissioner (DC) of Detective Branch of Police.
The DC was talking to reporters during a press briefing at the DB headquarters in the afternoon.
During the briefing, the DB did not produce the four arrestees before reporters.
Ali, 45, an official with the consular section of the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka, was shot dead near his house in the high security diplomatic enclave during the wee hours of March 6.
While briefing journalists, DC said detectives arrested Saiful Islam Mamun, 20, Rafiqul Islam Khokon, 22, Akbar Ali Lalu, 25, and Al Amin, 25, during separate drives conducted in different parts of the capital in the last week.
DB police first nabbed one of the arrestees along with a .22 bore pistol. As per his statement, the law enforcers later arrested the three others, he said.
The detectives sent the pistol to Forensic Department of CID following the recovery of .22 bore pistol as they suspected that the muggers may have a link with the killing of Saudi Embassy official.
The official was shot dead by a gun of same calibre.
On Sunday, Forensic Department of Criminal Investigation Department confirmed that the bullet that killed the Saudi official was fired from the same pistol, the DC said.
Being confirmed, police showed them arrested in the murder case and took them on an eight-day remand on Tuesday, he added.
During the first day's interrogation, the four criminals admitted their involvement with the killing of the Saudi official, he said.
As per their statement, police also seized a white car from Manikdi of Dhaka Cantonment area Tuesday night, the DC said. The car was used by the muggers during the killing.
On the fateful night, the snatchers waylaid Ali for mugging while he went out from his residence for jogging.
The Saudi official and the muggers engaged in a brawl while the official was trying to resist the criminals, the DC going on saying that at one stage, a bullet went off and hit the official.
Later, the muggers fled the scene hurriedly boarding the white car.
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