"Are you a policeman? “ Megh asked this correspondent.
The five-year-old looked hesitant and curious when he saw this reporter at their living room yesterday. After a while, he stepped forward and started talking to this correspondent.
Before asking the question, Mahir Sarowar Megh, the only son of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Mehrun Runi, took the notebook of this correspondent and sketched a number of things including a revolver.
"They [the killers] threatened to shoot me. They had a bullet [gun]," he said, pointing the revolver he drew.
He then abruptly changed the topic and started talking about something else.
"They set fire and ate my egg."
Overcome by fear and trauma, Megh has apparently lost his balance: he says things relevant to the incident and also things that are not relevant.
"Obviously he is shell-shocked and we are not discussing anything in front of him,” said Roman, one of Runi's brothers.
Megh is refusing to eat since the incident, he added.
Thirty-six hours after the incident, Sagar and Runi's West Rajabazar residence, where the couple was killed, wore a dark, gloomy look yesterday afternoon.
“Do you know they've killed my father and mother?” Megh said, very feebly.
Asked where he slept on the night, he said, “I slept at mimmis [he calls his mother mimmy] room.”
Showing a photo of his father wearing a black suit, he said he has a similar suit.
When asked if there were "one or three people" in their house that night, he said two.
"They hit in papa's leg and papa fell down. Blood was welling out," he said.
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