Four held over killing of top Bangla police officer’s wife

Bangladesh police on Monday detained four suspects in connection with the killing of a top anti-terror police officer’s wife who was stabbed and shot dead by three bike-borne Islamist militants in the port city of Chittagong.

Mahmuda Akhtar Mitu, 35, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akhtar, was killed by the three gunmen on Sunday while she was on her way to drop her first-grader son to a nearby bus stop for school.

The four suspects were detained from Mirarsari area at the outskirts of the port city and will be interrogated in connection with the murder, Chittagong's police commissioner Iqbal Bahar told media.