INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Police investigating the apparent poisoning of a British family of five on holiday in Bangladesh, which killed a father and son, are hoping
the survivors could hold the key to what happened.Rafiqul Islam, 51, a taxi driver from Cardiff, and his son, 16-year-old Mahiqul, along
with three other members of their family, were discovered unconscious in a locked room by police officers on Tuesday
being treated in hospital
Samira remains in a critical condition in the intensive care unit while Husnara and Sadiqul are said to be recovering well
Police are keen to speak to them as soon as they can to try to establish what happened.The family, from the Riverside area of Cardiff, were
primary suspicion is they were poisoned
Doctors are yet to send the postmortem report
Our team has already preserved samples from the deceased persons, and we have also collected samples
speaking with the relatives of the victims
room after eating dinner on Monday night
The following day, other relatives raised the alarm after they could hear no sound coming from the flat and tried unsuccessfully to open the
The mother and the son are doing well now but the daughter, Samira, is critical
shock and disbelief in the Riverside area of Cardiff
Riverside is the hub of the Bangladeshi community in Cardiff and they were very well liked there
The circumstances are not clear
They are a quiet family who do their own thing
concern because many people from Riverside go to Bangladesh on a regular basis
weekday morning at 7am BSTMohammed Haroon, general secretary of the Bangladesh Association Cardiff, who used to work with Rafiqul Islam,
said Rafiqul Islam was a member of their local badminton and football teams.A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson
This article first appeared/also appeared in theguardian.com
