Five more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans yesterday confessed to their involvement in the BDR headquarters carnage.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) also interrogated 75 BDR personnel at Pilkhana yesterday as part of their investigation into the carnage that left 74 people dead, including 57 army officers.

Nayek Hatem Ali, Sepoys Saifuzzaman, Abdur Rahman, Nazrul Islam and Neon Marma made their confessional

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statements under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Five metropolitan magistrates in Dhaka recorded their statements after the CID, which is tasked with the investigation into the mutiny, produced the five men before the court with prayers for recording their statements.

So far 59 BDR jawans, including yesterday's five, have made confessional statements before magistrates in connection with the mutiny case. The case was initially filed with Lalbagh police and later shifted to Newmarket police station.

CID sources 75 other jawans were interrogated but none were arrested, as their involvement in the camage was not found.