A day after their father was brutally shot dead in front of their eyes, children of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer Mohammed Tanzil Ahmed recount the horror that unfolded in front of their eyes.
"There were two people on a motorcycle. They shot at my father and when they exhausted all their bullets, they reloaded the gun and shot at him again. They stopped near the car for three/four minutes and then went away," his daughter said.
Bullets were fired at Ahmed in Bijnor 24 times on Saturday night in front of his wife and children while they were returning from a family wedding. The NIA and Uttar Pradesh Police are probing any possible terror angle to Tanzil's murder.
His son also recalls how there were one to two people who attacked his father. "There were one or two people. My father asked us put to our head down," he said.
According to police, in a "planned attack", the killers pumped 24 bullets into 45-year-old Mohd Tanzil Ahmad and four into his wife Farzana Khatoon, as their daughter, 14, and son, 12, watched the gruesome incident from the back seat of the car they were travelling in.
The children were not injured. NIA IG Sanjeev Kumar later said Farzana was "out of danger. There is no damage to her vital organs. She is recovering".
The incident took place when Ahmed, earlier posted as an assistant commandant in BSF and on deputation to NIA, was returning to his home in Sahaspur village of Bijnor district with his family after attending his niece's wedding in another nearby village in the same district, which is about 150 km from Delhi.
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