Another BDR 'suicide' reported................

The body of a BDR jawan of 38 Rifles Battalion was found Wednesday at BDR's Sylhet headquarters in Akhalia.

The dead soldier was identified as 23 year-old Waliullah Sheikh of Vandartake village in Batiaghata Upazila.

Mokshed Ali, BDR assistant director at the Sylhet headquarters, told us that an executive magistrate and assistant commissioner of police recovered the body from a toilet.

"He appears to have committed suicide," said Ali.

"He was at Peelkhana during the February 25-26 BDR rebellion and later reported back to Sylhet headquarters," the AD added

The body was sent to Osmani Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

A case of unnatural death has been filed with Kotwali police, said Ali.

At least two deaths of BDR soldiers by 'suicide' and at least three deaths after hospitalisation for unspecified reasons, in the capital and elsewhere, have been reported in the media since the BDR mutiny.

Rights bodies, including the US-based Human Rights Watch, have expressed concern at the spate of sudden deaths.