Abducted Iqbal found alive in Lakshmipur

Doctor Iqbal Mahmud, who was reportedly abducted from Dhanmondi area in Dhaka on October 14 in 2016, was found alive in Lakshmipur after seven and half months of his alleged abduction.

Confirming the matter to Jagonews24.com, Lokman Hussain, officer-in-charge of Lakshmipur Sadar Police Station, said that, “They recovered Iqbal from the new cattle market on Raipur- Lakshmipur road in the wee hours of Thursday.”

At 10pm on October 14, he left Lakshmipur for Dhaka to attend training programme at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

When he reached Dhaka at 3:30am, he was reportedly picked up by seven or eight persons and whisked away in a microbus at Science Laboratory intersection.

On November 15, Iqbal’s father AKM Nurul Alam, filed a general diary with Dhanmondi Police Station.