Staff Reporter :
The nation will observe the 54th martyrdom anniversary of Bir Shreshtha Ruhul Amin, today.
To mark the anniversary, the Bangladesh Navy in Khulna has arranged programmes including laying wreaths at the graves, discussions on their heroism, doa mahfil, and recitation from the Holy Quran.
On this day in 1971, just six days before victory, Engine Room Artificer Ruhul Amin of Bangladesh Naval Ship (BNS) Palash was killed on the bank of the Rupsha River after swimming nearly a quarter kilometre to shore following an air attack on the vessel.
Earlier that day, BNS Palash captured Mongla Port from Pakistani occupation forces after a fierce gun battle and was advancing towards Khulna to liberate the industrial city.
As the ship approached the Shipyard area, a fighter aircraft bombed it, killing Mohibullah, Bir Bikrom, on the spot. The remaining naval personnel jumped into the Rupsha River to escape the explosion.
Although Ruhul Amin survived the bombing, he was later killed by anti-liberation forces who collaborated with the Pakistani forces. Ruhul Amin and Mohibullah were buried the next day at Bagmara village under East Rupsha. In 1997, the Khulna Development Authority built a memorial complex around their graves. The Bangladesh Navy has been supervising the complex since its handover by the KDA.
Police have opened a murder case after a woman and her teenage daughter were found stabbed to death in their flat in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur.
The case was filed on Tuesday by AZM Azizul Islam, the husband and father of the victims, according to Mohammadpur Police Station chief (OC) Mezbah Uddin.
The bodies of Laila Afroze, 48, and her 15-year-old daughter Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziz were discovered inside their seventh-floor flat on Shahjahan Road on Monday. Nafisa was a 9th-grade student at Mohammadpur Preparatory School. Her mother was a homemaker.
OC Mezbah Uddin said a domestic worker has been accused in the case.
“We know her as Ayesha, but we have not yet confirmed whether that is her real name.”
Azizul, a physics teacher at Sunbeams School in Uttara, had left for work early on Monday morning. He told police he returned home around 11am to find the front door ajar and the bodies of his wife and daughter lying inside with multiple stab wounds.
CCTV footage from the building showed a young woman entering the flat around 7:51am wearing a burqa and leaving less than two hours later dressed in a school uniform belonging to Nafisa. Police say she had been hired as a temporary domestic worker only four days earlier and was the key suspect.
Investigators earlier said the suspect appeared to have used the family bathroom after the attack and left the flat without drawing attention. The caretaker who allowed her in did not recognise her when she left in different clothing, police said.
They also found signs of a struggle inside the flat and said almirahs and bags had been ransacked, suggesting that valuables may have been taken.
Mezbah Uddin said police were hopeful of providing an update on an arrest very soon.
