On Sunday, the Dhaka police called up a foreign company executive, Meer Hayet Kabir. The call was to ask him to come to a military hospital morgue and identify a body which was possibly of his 18-year-old son, Meer Saameh Mubasher, reported The Telegraph.
Mubasher was one of the three attackers identified in the the seige at Dhaka’s Holey Artisan Bakery.
How will we arrange a funeral for him in these circumstances? Who will come? I will have to apologise to the whole world on behalf of my son.Meer Hayet Kabir told The Telegraph.
Kabir was in touch with the police ever since his son disappeared in February, reported The Telegraph.
Mubasher was a student at Scholastica School, known to be one of the elite schools in Dhaka. In February, he left home for a tutorial class and never returned.
I believe some Islamist group recruited my boy.Meer Hayet Kabir
Though Kabir said he wasn’t aware his son was being radicalised, he recalled one clue. Mubasher had liked to play the guitar, but three months prior to his disappearance, he stopped, the report said.
On being asked why, Mubasher said “music is not good,” perhaps reflecting a fanatical belief that “music and dancing are bad influences.”
Kabir had hoped that his son would return home, despite all odds. He dreaded making that trip to the morgue, the report said.
He kept staring at the five pictures released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) of the five assailants. He tried to convince himself his son was not one of the young men, beaming back at him from the picture.
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