Bangladesh police question New York bomber Akayed Ullah’s wife
Dhaka — Bangladeshi counter terrorism officers on Tuesday questioned the wife of New York subway bomber Akayed Ullah and said he had visited the family in Dhaka in September. Police said Ullah, an immigrant from Bangladesh who set off a crude bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York subway passage on Monday, had visited Dhaka after the couple’s baby son was born. "We are trying to know how he was radicalised and whether he had any associates," senior counterterrorism officer Saiful Islam said. He said police had raided the family home in Dhaka and questioned Ullah’s 25-year-old wife, Jannatul Ferdous Piya and her father, but that neither was under any suspicion. Ullah reportedly told US police investigators he wanted to avenge US airstrikes on the Islamic State (IS) group and was also inspired by Christmas terror plots in Europe.
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