Suspected “Neo JMB” militant Saiful Islam, who was killed during an anti-militancy operation at a hotel in Dhaka yesterday, died in bomb explosion, doctors said after conducting the autopsy.

“Saiful died in bomb explosion,” Sohel Mahmud, head of forensic medicine department of DMC, told The Daily Star today.

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The body was found severely burnt in different parts of it, he added.

According to counterterrorism officials, he had planned to carry out an attack on the crowd paying homage to Bangabandhu on National Mourning Day at Dhanmondi 32.

During yesterday's seven-hour operation codenamed “August Bite” starting at 4:00am, Saiful “blasted two bombs” while members of the bomb disposal unit of the DMP defused three others at the hotel, police said.