Earlier, criminal experts and investigators suspected that the killed militants might have been using narcotics or stimulants like captagon and yaba, similar to foreign militants. The samples of the other two militants killed in Sholakia were sent from Mymensingh Medical College. However, of the seven said militants killed during the Gulshan attack, involvement of the chef and another Holey Artisan Bakery employee are yet to be confirmed. A law enforcement agency official, seeking anonymity, said the militants were cold-blooded murders and that is why it was being suspected that they might have been using stimulants to carry out such heinous acts. On July 1, militants killed 20 people, mostly foreigners, inside Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area, before security forces stormed the building and ended a 12-hour standoff on July 2.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 29, 2016 18:56 UTC