Victims\\\' family people testify

Family members of the seven victims murdered at Narayanganj have started testifying to the probe committee formed by an order of the High Court. The probe body headed by Md Shahjahan Ali Mollah, additional secretary at the Public Administration Ministry, began hearing them from 10:30am Saturday. Ward-2 Councillor Nazrul Islam was abducted along with four of his aides on Apr 27 from near Narayanganj city’s court premises. Senior lawyer Advocate Chandan Kumar Sarkar and his driver also went missing from the same location, around the same time. Three days later, six decomposing bodies were found floating on Sitalakkha River in Bandar Upazila. Another was found the next day. They were found to be those who had been abducted. Councillor Nazrul’s wife Selina Islam and his father-in-law Shahidul Islam, were present at the Deputy Commissioner’s office on Saturday along with Chandan Sarkar’s daughter Sejuti Sarkar to depose before the probe body. Earlier on Thursday, the committee visited the place from where the abductions had taken place the spot near the Shitalakkha River where their bodies were found, according to bdnews24.com.