Rohingya leader Mohibullah’s body still at Cox’s Bazar hospital morgue
Meanwhile, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan alongwith Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed visited Cox’s Bazar this morning.
US Ambassador Earl R Miller and British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson have expressed deep shock at the alleged murder of leading Rohingya community leader Mohibullah.
International human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged Bangladesh to open an investigation into the killing.
Earlier, Mohibullah, also the Chairman of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARPSH), was gunned down at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday night.
Mohibullah was talking with other refugee leaders outside his office after attending Esha prayers when gunmen fired shots at him at least three times, said Mohammad Nowkhim, a spokesman of ARPSH.
“He was shot dead at point-blank,” he told the media from a hideout as most Rohingya leaders have since gone into hiding after Mohibullah’s death.
Mohibullah was rushed to the main Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) hospital in the camp.
“Four to five unidentified assailants shot him from close range. He was declared dead at a MSF hospital in the camp,” source said.
Naimul Huque, a commander of the Armed Police Battalion in Cox’s Bazar, said in a statement that the gun attack on Mohibullah took place at the Kutupalong refugee camp at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar district on Wednesday evening. Doctors in hospital declared him dead after he was rushed there.
