Team to quiz 'suspect' at Singapore hospital

They are grocer Abdus Salam Laki of the city's Munshipara area and shrine guards Dudu Miah and Enamul. They were taken to Dhaka Sunday night.

Enamul was also interrogated after the January 12 blast in the shrine. He had been shown arrested in that case also.

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High officials seeking anonymity said a team of intelligence officials from the RAB, DGFI, NSI and CID will go to Singapore next week to interrogate Badrul Hossain Shamim, now under treatment at a hospital there for injuries he suffered in the May 21grenade blast. The date will be finalised within a day or two, they said.

Shamim, a British citizen hailing from Sylhet, came to Bangladesh weeks before May 21.

One of his legs, badly injured in the blast, was amputated in Sylhet. He was then taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and then flown to Singapore.

Shamim married on May 3 last in Sylhet.

Bangladeshi born British High Commissioner Anwar Chowdhury was among the many injured in the blast that killed four persons.

Meanwhile, joining of Dr. Abdur Rahim as Police Superintendent of Sylhet has become uncertain, officials said.

He was Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police. He was transferred to Sylhet as SP a week ago.

Sylhet SP Shahadat Hossain was put under suspension and withdrawn on May 24 for alleged lax security arrangement in the shrine area on May 21. Shahadat handed over charge to Additional SP Rezaul Karim on May 25.

Later, one ASP and the OC of Sylhet Kotwali thana were transferred. More actions are on the offing, sources said.