Mystery over Mymensingh suicides deepens

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Brahmanbaria/Mymensingh, July 14 (bdnews24.com): The suicide of nine members of a family in Mymensingh has been wrapped in further mystery with the emergence of a woman who claims to be a member of the family.
Merazunnahar Mobi, who identified herself as a daughter of Anwar Darbesh, said it was a preplanned killing, not suicide.
Her eight-year-old son Mawla and five-year-old daughter Tabassum Moon were also among the nine dead, Mobi said.
Mobi talked to reporters in her rented home in Medda area of Brahmanbaria district headquarters in the afternoon.
She demanded punishment to the killers. Unruly, fanatic neighbours might have compelled them to choose the path of suicide, she added.
Nine members of the family were crushed to death after they stood in the path of a moving train in Kashore area of Mymensingh district Wednesday.
Mobi did not go to Mymensingh to claim her children buried unclaimed.
Brahmanbaria police picked up Mobi and quizzed her at the police station.
Mobi said that her brother Golam Mahin, who studied at Oxford University, was killed on September 10, 2005 by unidentified men. She suspected the killers of her brother might have also killed the nine.
Mobi trashed news reports that the deceased converted to Christianity. The reports were totally false and baseless, she said.
Witnesses, the train driver and police said the nine people willingly stood in the path of the moving train.
Again, one of the deceased Leena, who used to live in Anwar’s house as a disciple, in her diary wrote that some people in her village were trying to occupy the house of Anwar Darbesh, known as Anwar Aadom as he envisaged ‘Aadom religion’.
“I saw some people walking along the rail line. Suddenly they stepped on the track and were crushed,” Shah Muhammad Enayet Hossain Khan, the train driver, told bdnews24.com Wednesday.