The government doubled the amount of bounty for tipping off the whereabouts of the absconders involved in the February 25-26 carnage at the BDR headquarters in which the entire command of the border force was eliminated, reports UNB.

"A sum of Tk 100,000 will be given in cash award if anyone can help the local thana or any law-enforcing agency in arresting any of the absconding BDR members involved in the February 25-26 brutal incident at Pilkhana BDR headquarters," an official of the home ministry said about the latest government decision.

Earlier on April 7, the government had put a bounty of Tk 50,000 on each head of the runaways for their arrest.

"The name and identity of the informer will remain a secret," said Senior Information Officer of the home ministry Md Shahinoor Miah.

The February 25-26 mutiny and mayhem inside the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters left a total of 75 people dead, 57 of them army officers in command of the border guards, including their chief Major Gen Shakil Ahmed. Among the rest are two family members of army officers, 9 BDR jawans and 7 civilians.

Several thousand soldiers and their lower-ranked commanders fled the headquarters as well as some outer stations. Most of them have been run in while a few hundred others remained on the run.