B’desh Awami League leader’s son among hostage-takers?

Rohan Ibne Imtiaz, the son of S M Imtiaz Khan Babul, a leader of the party’s Dhaka City chapter and Bangladesh Olympic Association’s deputy secretary general, has been identified as one of the attackers by another Awami League leader, BD News reported.

Babul lodged a police complaint on January 4 this year stating that his son had been missing.

“We have identified him (Rohan) as Imtiaz Babul’s son after going through the pictures that came up in the media and on Facebook,” Mukul Chowdhury, a vice-president of the recently-defunct Awami League’s Dhaka City unit committee, was quoted as saying.

Babul was the youth and sports secretary of the same committee Chowdhury had served.

Rohan completed his A-levels from Scholastica, known as a school for the children of well-to-do families in Dhaka. His mother is a teacher at the school.

Former classmates have uploaded a photo combo in the social media of Rohan with his parents and the photo, monitoring group SITE Intelligence published on Twitter, reportedly released by the Islamic State (IS), as one of the Dhaka cafe attackers.

The hostage crisis at the cafe at Dhaka’s upscale Gulshan neighbourhood ended in bloodbath after army commandos raided and freed 13 hostages.

The army said six attackers had been killed in the countertsrike and that 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, were found slaughtered inside the restaurant.