Staff Reporter :
Two suspected Neo-JMB militants were killed in “Suicide blasts” during a raid conducted by the law enforcers at a ‘militant hideout’ in Bajrapur village of Moheshpur upazila in Jhenaidah district on Sunday morning.
During the raid, three law enforcers were injured. They are Counter Terrorism Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit’s Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Nazmul Haque, Jhenaidah police’s Sub-Inspectors Mahsin Ali and Mozibur Rahman, Didar Ahmed, Deputy Inspector General (Khulna Range) of Police told reporters near the militants’ den in the afternoon.
The DIG said that, one of the militants was identified as Tuhin, but could not provide details about the other suspect.
“One of the militants detonated the suicide vest he was wearing after police entered the single-story building at around 5:30am,” said our Jhenidah correspondent quoting Mizanur Rahman, Superintendent of Police (SP) of the district.
Police cordoned off the building based on information that the suspected militants went to the house on Saturday night, the police official said.
Ahmed Kabir, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Moheshpur Police Station, said he had a scuffle with Tuhin when he
entered the house. “Tuhin fell down on the ground and detonated the suicide vest he was wearing after the OC kicked him during the brawl.”
Soon after Tuhin killing, the second militant died in another suicide blast inside the building, the OC said, adding a total of four blasts were heard inside the house during the raid.
Earlier in the morning, police in a drive detained three people from a tin-shed house at Laboni village in Sadar upazila. They are Alamgir Hossain, a tenant and suspected militant, Johurul Islam, 45, owner of the house and his son Jasim Uddin, 25, said the Officer-in-Charge of Sadar Police Station Harendranath Sarker.
Police seized six grenades, one 9mm pistol and eight bullets during the raid, he said.
The local administration has imposed Section 144 in the area since morning to avoid any untoward incident, he said.
Using loud speakers, law enforcers were seen asking locals not to come out of their homes for the sake of their safety, our correspondent said.
A bomb disposal unit from Dhaka visited the suspected militant hideout at Bajrapur village under Moheshpur upazila of the district yesterday.
Fire service trucks and ambulances have been kept on standby and the media is not being allowed to go near the scene.
Meanwhile, the bodies of ‘Neo JMB’ leader Nurul Islam Marzan, the operational commander of July 1 Gulshan café attack, and his aide Saddam Hossain were handed over to Anjuman Mufidul Islam for burial in the capital on Sunday morning.
The bodies were handed over to the charitable organisation around 10:30am, Dhaka Medical College morgue sources said.
Later, the two militants will be buried at Jurain Graveyard, said Anjuman Mofidul Islam’s Duty Officer Mahmudul Hasan.
Marzan and Saddam, also the “Neo JMB” activists, were killed in an alleged gunfight with law enforcers in Beribadh area of the city’s Mohammadpur area on January 6 this year.
