DMCH: Ashkona militant died in the blast

Doctors said she died due to the injuries caused by the bomb detonation. Doctors received the body of the militant from the police as unidentified, said Dr Sohel Mahmud, head of the Forensic department of Dhaka Medical College. She had died 36 hours before the doctors began the autopsy. He added: “She was wounded severely from the stomach down. She had splinter wounds in several places. We will send her viscera to Mohakhali for examination” Doctors have also collected hair and thigh muscles for DNA profiling. The female militant blew herself up during a 16-hour police raid in a militant hideout in Dhaka’s Ashkona on Saturday – marking the first time when a woman acted in the capacity of a suicide bomber in Bangladesh.