The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

South African police is learnt to have protected the killers of a Bangladeshi couple by taking huge bribe.

Earlier police arrested five Bangladeshis who confessed of killing Alamgir and his wife Zakia. Later they were freed on a mysterious reason .

Fatema Khatun, mother of the deceased Bangladeshi repatriate yesterday at a press conference in Dhaka made this allegation.

They said, Utam of Munshiganj, Jahangir of Comilla, Alam of Begumganj, Majid of Noakhali and Bahauddin slaughtered his son and his wife on March 19, and looted huge amount of money from his residence in Lenesia.

There are three children of the deceased couple, two of them are handicapped. The killers are threatening us urder case, she alleged.

Accusing the Bangladeshi High Commission in South Africa of non-cooperation they said, if they helped us, we would get justice.

''Yet we did not get the documents of my son's house, insurance in South Africa due to the non-cooperation of our embassy'', she said.

She appealed to the Chief Adviser for ordering the Foreign Ministry so that the Bangladesh Embassy in association with South African police take legal action against the killers.

Alamgir, son of Mobarak Hossain hailing from Kochua Upazila under Chandpur district, was a phone card wholeseller in South Africa and possessed huge properties there.