Parents of Nibras apologise to countrymen

Staff Correspondent: The parents of Nibras Islam today gave a written statement seeking a public apology.

Nibras’s father Nazrul Islam and mother Layla Bilkis also asked for severe punishment for those who are leading the youth astray.
 
The statement reads, “We are ashamed and devastated. Our son Nibras was a gentle and modest boy. All his fellow students from Uttara can attest to that. He studied in North South University. He went to Monash University in Malaysia in pursuit of higher education.

In 2015, he came back to Bangladesh and went missing on 3 February, 2016. Before he went missing, he left behind a note asking us to pray for him, and that he would come back one day. We were very distraught at our son’s disappearance. We informed the detective agencies about this.

We got to learn that our son was involved in the 2 July Holey Artisan attack. We are ashamed and devastated to learn that our son did this. Being Nibras’s parents, we have no words to console the families and friends of all those who have died. Our son could not eat with his own hands once."

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