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Siblings’ death: RAB to speak to parents

two-siblings-dhakaDhaka Journal : The parents and an aunt are being escorted to Dhaka from Jamalpur over death of two minor siblings, who autopsy suggests, might have been murdered.
Aroni and Alvi on Alvi’s last birthday.

This morning, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) went to Jamalpur, the ancestral home of the siblings and where they were buried, and took them in for questioning.

“They are being brought to Dhaka for questioning,” Lt Col Khandaker Golam Sarwar, commanding officer of Rab-3 told The Daily Star this morning.

Nusrat Aman Aroni, 14, and her six-year-old borther Alvi Aman were found unconscious at their apartment in Dhaka’s Rampura area last , according to Mohammad Amanullah, father of the victims.

It was initially believed that the children died from food poisoning before autopsy suggested that the victims might have been murdered. There were bruises on the bodies.

Dhaka Journal, MAR 02, 2016.