Police on Wednesday recovered the knife used in the murder of Bulbul Ahmed, a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) and his mobile phone set at Tilagaon near the university campus in Sylhet. The knife and the mobile phone set were recovered from the house of Kamrul Hossain, 30, a mason of the area who was detained in connection with the murder. Kamrul also confessed to his involvement in the murder, Azbahar Ali Sheikh, deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police. Based on his information, police recovered the knife and the mobile phone after conducting drive at Kamrul’s house around 11am, he added. So far, five people have been detained, said Azbahar. “Investigation is still going on. After  investigation, those who are involved will be shown arrested in this case. So, the total number of arrests cannot be said now.” Read:Three held over SUST student Bulbul's murder

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members  arrested a youth on Thursday for his suspected involvement in the killing of a private university student in the city’s Karwanbazar area on Tuesday. Tipped off, a team of Rab-2 conducted a drive and arrested Md Tuhin, 20 from Munnunagar area in Gazipur, said a press release of Rab-2. According to Rab,  during interrogation, Tuhin confessed to  killing Keshob Roy Papon,24, a student of Computer Science department of Sonargaon University, during snatching his valuables. Also read: Police arrest AB Bank DMD in fraud case Further drive to arrest other criminals involved in the murder will be conducted following information gleaned from Tuhin, they said. On October, 5, Keshob Roy was hacked by some miscreants in front of Hotel Marine at Tejturi Bazar in the city. Also read: Dhamaka COO arrested for 'fraud' The miscreants fled the scene leaving Papon injured. Doctors announced him dead after locals rushed him to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. On October 6, Papon’s uncle filed a murder case at Tejgaon police station.

Police detained eight people, including a girl, in connection with the murder of a Rajshahi Science and Technology University (RSTU) student in Nabinkinchapur village of the Sadar upazila early Monday.