A Bangladesh English daily claims that Malaysia has been used as a transit route for several Bangladeshi extremists who wanted to join the Islamic State in Syria.
It said that Bangladeshi who were reported missing were believed to have flown here before travelling to Turkey, which had become the gateway to Syria.
The Bangladesh English daily reported that at least six of such cases involved Malaysia.
?Nibras Islam and Rohan Imtiaz ― two attackers of the Gulshan cafe ― and Tawsif Hossain, a close friend of Nibras, went to Malaysia for higher studies at Monash University. All the three simply vanished after returning home.
?Junnun Sikder, a student of a top private university, Nazibullah Ansari, a marine engineer, and Mohammad Basharuzzaman, a private jobholder, also went to Malaysia and remain traceless.
?A five-member family of Rokonuddin Knondoker, a paediatrician at a government hospital in the capital, left the country in July last year, telling relatives that they would visit Malaysia and other countries... they are yet to return home and law enforcers suspect that the whole family has been radicalised and is in Syria now,? the news report was quoted as saying.
It was also learnt that a signer, Tahmid, son of a former home secretary and election commissioner from Bangladesh had left home on April 23 last year for Malaysia for a ?honeymoon?, but instead travelled to Turkey before heading to Syria.
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