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Another kidnapped student rescued in Cox’s Bazar, 2 more Rohingyas held
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)members have recued another student who was kidnapped along with 3 others from Ramu upazila in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday.
Mizanur Rahman, 17 , son of Faridul Alam of Mongolpara area in Pechar Dwip, was rescued from a hill adjacent to Shalban at Nayapara in Teknaf.
With Mizanur, all the four kidnapped students have been rescued.
Besides, two Rohingyas- Jahangir, 25, and Jabed, 30- were detained, said Lieutenant Colonel Khairul Islam, commander of Rab-15.
Earlier on Friday evening, abducted Mohammad Kaysar , Mizanur Rahman Nayan, and Zahedul Islam were rescued from the hilly areas adjacent to Shalban in Teknaf upazila in separate drives of the Rab and Armed Police Battalion (APBn), said Rab-15 in a press briefing held Saturday noon.
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So far, nine Rohingyas were detained in connection with the kidnapping, said the Rab-15 commander.
Three of the other detainees were identified as Nur Salam, 50, Ranjan Bibi and Saddam Mia of Mochni Para in Rohingya Camp H-4 block.
Detained Mohammad Ibrahim and Jabed were staff of Batighar resort in Pechar Dwip and they developed friendship with the victims two months before the incident, according to Rab.
On December 7, lured by Ibrahim the four students left home for visiting Saint Martin’s Island and spent the night at a hotel near Teknaf police station.
The day next, Ibrahim took the students to Rohingya camp-24 in Teknaf to visit a relative and handed over them to Rohingya miscreants .
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The students were taken to deep forest areas in Noapara and Shalban adjoining the Rohingya camps and tortured by the kidnappers, said Khairul Islam, commander of Rab-15.
The students were forced to call their family members from their cell phones and demand a total of Tk 20 lakh as ransom money, he said.
Getting murder threat from the kidnappers, victims’ families lodged complaints with Teknaf police station and CPC-2 Whaikong camp of Rab-15.
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