RAB to investigate Foyzur’s militant connection

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said that they are investigating the matter whether the attacker Foyzur, who knifed Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal on Saturday, is associated with militancy or not.

A briefing was arranged at RAB-9 headquarters on Sunday afternoon over the attack on Dr. Zafar Iqbal.

In the briefing Senior ASP and Assistant Director of RAB Main Uddin Chowdhury said, after the incident of attack in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology the student held the attacker. After mass beating he was handed over to police. Foyzur was given treatment at Combined Minlitary Hospital in Sylhet.

He also said, his identification was confirmed after primary interrogation. Foyzur’s maternal and paternal uncles were also detained.

Foyzur attacked with a knife on the head of Dr. Zafar Iqbal at a program in Shahjalal University campus on Saturday.

Dr. Zafar Iqbal was rushed to the Osmani Medical College Hospital in Sylhet at first. Then he was brought to Dhaka on a helicopter in the night. He is undergoing treatment at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

The CMH medical board has said that though Dr. Zafar Iqbal was stabbed on the head, back and hand but those are not heavy injury, most of the wounds were created on the skin.

The five member medical board chief Major Munshi Mohammad Mujibur Rahman Said, there are four minor wounds on his head, single wound on the upper portion of the back and single wound on the left hand. Dr. Zafar Iqbal was given proper treatment, dressing and other medical facilities. He is conscious and out of danger at the moment.

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