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Scotland Yard team in city

Faruk Khan to coordinate probes

Staff Correspondent
Visiting personnel of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of USA and Scotland Yard from UK made separate visits to BDR Pilkhana headquarters in order to assist local investigators probing the massacre.
The four-member Scotland Yard team, who arrived in Dhaka yesterday morning, visited the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in the afternoon. The two member FBI team visited PilkhanaTuesday.
The personnel of the two foreign agencies are to meet and exchange views. They will also separately meet the three local investigation teams.
The government assigned Commerce Minister Faruk Khan to maintain coordination among all three investigation
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teams. Faruk Khan told reporters that the investigators had so far identified 30-35 people involved in last month's carnage in BDR headquarters. He said some of them had confessed to their involvement.
Scotland Yard detectives started their work yesterday afternoon meeting die investigators of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
CID officials briefed the UK team about the situation, investigation officer of the BDR mutiny case Abdul Kahar Akond told The Daily Star after the meeting at CID headquarters in Dhaka.
Akond said they sought help from Scotland Yard for forensic and ballistic tests, technological assistance and their expertises in performing DNA tests.
The two agents of FBI, accompanied by two senior officials of the US embassy in Dhaka, had a series of meetings with CID officials Monday.
According to sources, the FBI and Scotland Yard personnel visited Darbar Hall, residences of the slain BDR officers, mass graves and other spots in Pilkhana.
Meanwhile, British High Commissioner Stephen Evans said the Scotland Yard team will not investigate the BDR carnage but advise local law enforcement agencies on how to investigate into a matter of this magnitude.
"They are here to offer our own experience," said Stephen Evans at a press conference yesterday afternoon at a city hotel.
The high commissioner said the members of the Scotland Yard team are very senior and experienced.
When asked whether the UK will provide any specific technical assistance, Evans said they would consider it after receiving the request.
The diplomat did not name the team members saying the officers are working in a sensitive area.
The Scotland Yard team is expected to leave Saturday morning.