Image: Some footages of inside the house of Anwar family after the incident. A coffin, grave and the diaries of the victims.
Their relatives said the crisis in the family deepened with the death of Anwar on July 10, 2000. Anwar’s eldest son, Golam Mohiuddin Mahin, a teacher of the Asian University, Bangladesh, then took over the charge of the family. He was killed at Kalabagan in Dhaka in 2003 and it was a big blow dealt to the family, financially.
The youngest son, Arif, had since then maintained the family of nine with his meager earning from his job with a non-governmental organization.
‘The notes in the diaries found in the house are against Muhammad and Islam,’ said the Mymensingh police superintendent, Rafiqul Islam, without giving any details.
He said if the diaries had been made public before Wednesday’s incident, people would have killed them.
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We do not belong to any religion. When who are we? We are Adam,’ was written in English in one of the four diaries found in the house. A note in another diary read, ‘We are the only family in the world that is totally independent and self-dependent and out of Muhammad’s rule.’
The local people said the family members might have been mentally disoriented for which they behaved in an unusual way.
Rafiqur Rahman Dulal, cousin of Hena, Anwar’s wife, told New Age that Hena did not even let her mother, Zayeda Khatun, now 85, in the house when she went there after Anwar’s death.
Jamalpur Raiway Police is investigating the case and we are rendering all necessary supports," said Mymensingh Police Superintendent Rafiqul Islam. The spot is under the jurisdiction of Jamalpur Railway Police, he added.
Only survival of that family, a daughter of late Anwar Hossain Fakir is now working as a house tutor of a family on another part of the country and at the time of the incident she was detached from her family cause her job. She said that evils and the spirit of late Anwar Hossain Fakir had possessed their family. Therefore sometime they had to exorcize themselves from the evils. She lost her two children at that incident.
People are still haunted by the incidents. No one could believe a family would ever meet its end in such a manner. The house was sealed off and policemen kept standing guard.
And the mysteries of Anwar family are still unsolved.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/07/12/d7071201085.htm
http://www.newagebd.com/2007/jul/13/front.html
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/07/14/d7071401148.htm
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/07/13/d70713020226.htm
http://www.e-mela.com/page.php?id=503