Staff Reporter :
Law enforcers on Saturday found three bodies of suspected militants during their ‘Operation Maximus’ on the militant den at Borohat in Moulvibazar municipality area.
Of the deceased, two are males and one female. But police could not find out the identities of the dead militants.
Meanwhile, the law enforcers ended their two-day ‘Operation Maximus’ at the Borohat militant hideout in Moulvibazar on Saturday.
They claimed that one of them was directly involved with the explosions in Sylhet’s Shibbari police check post while a joint force was conducting the ‘Operation Twilight’ in Atia Mahal area.
Monirul Islam, Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, said these after ending the ‘Operation Maximus’ around 12:00 noon yesterday while Deputy Inspector General (Sylhet Range) Kamrul Ahsan and Moulvibazar Police Super Md Shahjalal were present.
“Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) members who were conducting the operation at the Borohat militant den ended their activities around 12:00 noon when they confirmed that all militants were killed.” the police official said.
The members of bomb disposal unit entered the duplex building and started their work as SWAT members came out of the militant den, he said.
The details regarding the identities of the militants will be revealed after the initial police report, the CTTC chief said.
“One of the militants was responsible for the attack near Atia Mahal on March 25, where two IEDs were detonated killing six people. He fled to Moulvibazar following the attack,” he said.
Monirul also said that the militants of Moulvibazar are members of what the police call Neo-JMB, an offshoot of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen (JMB).
The CTTC chief said so far nine members of law enforcing agencies have been killed during operations against the militants across the country.
Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital Resident Medical Officer Palash Roy said that the bodies of the deceased militants were kept in the hospital morgue in the afternoon.
Earlier on Thursday, the law enforcers found the limbs of seven bodies scattered at Nasirpur den in Sadar upazila of the district after the ‘Operation Hit Back’.
Meanwhile, the bomb disposal unit defused bombs, grenades and suicide vests at South Bagmara ‘militant den’ in Sadar Dakkhin upazila of Comilla on Saturday.
A team, led by Shakhawat Hossain, Additional Deputy Inspector General of Chittagong Range, started their work at 9:15am and defused two bombs weighing 5kg, six hand grenades and two suicide vests, said Md Shah Abid Hossain, Superintendent of Police in Comilla.
On Friday, the bombs, grenades and suicide vests were found at the hideout during operation strike launched by the SWAT team.
Based on intelligence information, a team of police cordoned off ‘the militant hideout’ in a three-storey building there around 4:30 pm on Wednesday.
