DHAKA: A team of US detective agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is set to reach Dhaka within a week to help investigate blogger and writer Avijit murder.

Detective Branch (DB) Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam informed the media at a briefing in DB headquarters around 1:30pm Tuesday.

The FBI team will join DB officers to investigate the murder, the joint commissioner added.

He also said the DB collected Thursday’s 18-hour CCTV video footage of the book fair.

The visiting team will identify the culprits seeing the footage if needed, Monirul remarked.

Earlier on Thursday night (February 26), Avijit Roy, 37, was hacked to death and his wife, Rafida Ahamed Bannya, 34, injured critically by a group of miscreants at TSC intersection of Dhaka University (DU).

BDST: 2000 HRS, MAR 03, 2015