DHAKA – Bangladesh police said Wednesday that they have arrested four suspects accused of killing a Saudi diplomat in Dhaka earlier this year and it appears the incident was a street crime gone wrong. Khalaf Bin Mohammed Salem Al-Ali, a 45-year-old official in the Saudi Embassy's consular section, was shot and killed 30 meters from his home shortly after midnight on March 6. Days after the killing, Saudi Arabia sent a team of investigators to consult with Bangladeshi detectives. “Bangladeshi authorities have informed our embassy in Dhaka of the arrest,” Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Foreign Minister, said in a statement in Riyadh. He said the Kingdom was confident that the concerned Bangladeshi authorities would be able to bring the culprits to justice. Police official Mollah Nazrul Islam said in Dhaka that the four men arrested this week told investigators they tried to rob the diplomat as he was going for a walk on the deserted street and shot him accidentally during a scuffle. He said the men were detained after a revolver and a car used in the killing were found in their possession. Islam said a Dhaka court is allowing investigators to question the suspects further. At the time of the killing, a senior official claimed the killers might have shot the official somewhere else and dumped his body on the road. — Agencies
