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SYLHET BLASTS

Investigators clutch at 2 suspects for clue

JULFIKAR ALI MANIK
Clueless investigators of the recent bomb and grenade blasts at two cinemas and Awami League meeting venue in Sylhet city now rely totally on suspected carriers of the explosives Soleman and Anwar for leads as mystery still shrouds the blasts.
The investigators brought the two to Dhaka yesterday for interrogation by the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) after failing to extract any confessional statements or significant information from them, sources said.
Sylhet police, meanwhile, arrested listed criminal Bidhan Saha Saturday night and are hunting for others with record of bomb-making, who are now on bail, to find clues to
the explosions.
Bidhan was on bail in 12 cases filed on different charges including bomb-making and blasting, and killing.
Locals caught Soleman from Monica Cinema Hall and Anwar from Rangmahal in the heart of the city while they were lying injured minutes into the August 5 blasts there.
A street urchin was killed and over 30 were injured when two powerful bombs went off at the two cinemas. Police also recovered an unexploded bomb from Abakash Cinema Hall.
Witnesses said they found a cable in Soleman's hand as he fell on the ground and Soleman threw it away as locals tried to catch him.
"We found him carrying a yellow bag before the blast," one witness was quoted as saying. The unexploded bomb found at Abakash and the one that exploded at Rangmahal were kept in similar bags, he reportedly said.
Witnesses to the Rangmahal blast said they found Anwar dropping a bomb, which exploded immediately.
But they did not confess to their involvement in the blasts even 12 days into their arrest during their treatment at MAG Osmany Medical College Hospital in Sylhet under police custody.
Neither Sylhet Kotwali police nor the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who are now probing the case, sought their remand during the period.
But they decided to bring the two to the capital for interrogation by the JIC as the higher authorities blasted them for failure to make any headway in the probe, sources mentioned.
Talking to The Daily Star, newly-appointed Officer-in-Charge of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station Syed Mahbubr Rahman however said, " They ( Soleman and Anwar) have been sent to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka for better treatment as their condition deteriorated. Soleman has gangrene in his right leg and Anwar has gangrene in his hand."
"We hope to extract from them leads to the blasts and track down people behind the incidents," he added.
Two other arrestees -- Masum and Motaleb -- are now in jail.
Kotwali police in Sylhet said all listed criminals went into hiding as 10 police teams started raiding different parts of the city Sunday night.