Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose government has outright denied involvement of IS in the recent murders of two foreigners, has vowed to hunt down and try the perpetrators of the crime that has aroused international concern.
The government has already given maximum priority to the ongoing investigations of Italian national and Japanese citizen who were gunned down by unidentified assailants in Dhaka on September 28 and October 3 in northern Rangpur. A police source has claimed to have already gathered “vital clues” of the two murders.
“There’ll be no place for terrorists and militants in Bangladesh… we’ll surely find out the killers ... and bring them under the purview of law,” Sheikh Hasina said in Dhaka on Tuesday.
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She also accused her arch political rival BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia for “conspiring to tarnish the country’s image”. When the country is moving forward, she said, a section of people are not happy at all.
Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella’s body has been handed over to the Italian embassy in Dhaka.
The country’s diplomats said a flight carrying the body will fly out of Dhaka on Wednesday. Italian consular attachés Denil Paolo Notaro and Giovanni Cianni received the body.
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Meanwhile, Japanese national Kunio Hoshim was buried on Tuesday in Rangpur — 10 days after being gunned down in a village near the northern city.