Avijit murder: FBI reports soon

Examination of the 11 evidence, which were collected from the crime scene of blogger Avijit murder and sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have been completed, Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said today.

“The reports will reach here soon,” the additional commissioner said at a press conference at DMP Media Centre around 1:00pm.

The police official also informed that some DNA samples have also been extracted from the evidence.

Saying that a total of eight people have been arrested in connection with the murder so far, the DMP official said the DNA reports will be cross-matched with the arrestees.

Unknown assailants hacked and brutally killed the Bangladeshi born American citizen and seriously injured his blogger wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya on the Dhaka University campus on February 26.

Detective Branch of police on March 11 last year handed over the evidence of Avijit murder to the FBI for DNA test.

The FBI got the evidence a day after a Dhaka court ordered the detectives to get a DNA test done by the US investigation agency.

On the following day of the murder, US Department of State Spokesperson Jen Psaki in a statement said Washington was ready to assist the investigation into the brutal killing, if sought.

Later on March 5, a four-member team of FBI arrived in Dhaka to help in the investigation.