FBI seats with Bangladeshi cops

A day after offering help, US-based Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today sat with Bangladesh cops on the murder of Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.

The team comprising of two US and one Bangladeshi went to the office of Detective Branch (DB) of Police at Mintoo Road in Dhaka this morning.

Mahbub Alam, deputy commissioner (east) of DB police, told the reporters that FBI members inquired if Bangladesh detectives need any help in the investigation of the killing.

They also discussed the findings in another slain blogger Avijit Roy killing investigation.

Also, he said, police have primarily ascertained that the press release claiming responsibility of Niloy’s murder originated from inside Bangladesh.

On Friday, unidentified assailants hacked to death blogger Niloy inside his house in the capital in broad daylight.

Niloy, 28, who also was a Gonojagoron Mancha activist, is the fourth blogger to have been killed this year by suspected Islamist militants.

Four men armed with cleavers tricked into his Goran house in Khilgaon posing as potential tenants and then killed him in his bedroom, according to police and family members.