Dhaka, Feb 06 – Eyewitness Sharmina Parvin of the Holey Artisan Bakery case, on Wednesday appeared before a tribunal of Dhaka and narrated how the militants killed innocent people before her inside the capital’s Holey Artisan Bakery on the night of July 1 of 2016.
Parvin,
Parvin said she, her husband Hasnat Karim, a former teacher of North South University, and two children went to the Holey Artisan Bakery around 8:30 pm on July 1,
“We ordered a waiter to serve food and were waiting at the last table of the bakery. All on a sudden, we saw three to four youths with arms entered there and started indiscriminate firing and asked us whether we are Muslims. We answered
They also asked us to head down. After a while, we found them firing at 8 to 10 foreigners who were behind us. They asked us to cover the eyes and noses of our children so that they could not see the incidents.”
“After
The militants put out all the lights except a light at
“They arranged some food for us for
At one stage, the militants gave us a key to go out of the bakery and returned our valuables including mobile phones. At around 7:30 am the following day, law enforcement agencies rescued us and later handed us over to detectives. Detectives then took us to their officer, interrogated us about the incident and later freed us” further said
Parvin also said that her husband was shown arrested in the case a month after the terrorist attack.
Judge Majibur Rahman of Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal of Dhaka recorded the statements of Parvin and later
Two more witnesses including
They are Md Shamsuzzaman, brother of Rabiul, and his cousin Mollah Md Anwarul Amin. Shamsuzzaman in his statement said at around 10:00 pm on July 1 of 2016 he came to know that his brother Rabiul Karim was injured during a gunfight with the militants at Holey Bakery.
Later, he went to Dhaka United Hospital from Savar and found his brother dead.
He was at the hospital all