Habiganj: A Habiganj court on Thursday gave permission to police to interrogate two people arrested in connection with the killing of four schoolboys at Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila in Habiganj.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Kawser Alam passed the order after officer-in-charge of Detective Branch (DB) Abdul Muktadir, also investigation officer of the case, produced Abdul Ali ,50, and his son Jewel Miah, 22, of Sundrateki village, before the court seeking a 10-day police custody for each.

Police on Wednesday arrested Abdul Ali and Jewel Miah for their suspected link to the murders.

A total of four people have so far been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of the four schoolboys.

Meanwhile, members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Rubel Miah, another son of Abdul Ali, from the same village early in the morning.

Besides, police arrested another person, Arju Miah, from the same village early Thursday.

The bodies of four schoolboys who had gone missing from Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila on Friday morning were recovered from a ditch at the village on Wednesday morning.

Informed by local people, police recovered the bodies of Zakaria Ahmed Shuvo, 8, son of Wahid Miah, his two cousins—Tajel Miah, 10, son of Abdul Aziz, Monir Miah, 7, son of Abdal Miah—and Ismail Hossain, 10, son of Abdul Quadir.