bdnews24.com :
Three activists of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrested with bombs in Rajshahi, says the Rapid Action Battalion.
The elite police unit claimed the men were planning a terror attack on Mar 7 (Monday), the day Bangladesh observes the 45th anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic Race Course address.
On this day in 1971, the Bangabandhu had appealed to all Bangalees to
join the independence struggle against Pakistan. The Rajshahi-based RAB unit said the men had been arrested early on Sunday morning from a village in the Bagmara Upazila. They had been identified as Amunir Rahman Supan, 35, Abu Sayeed Manik and PM Shahin Shah Tanin, said Assistant Superintendent of Police Alok Biswas.
The elite force had swung into action after the people of Purbaparha village informed it about the presence of three unfamiliar men in the area, said the RAB official. As many as 16 crude bombs, seven petrol bombs and jihadi literature were found on them, said Biswas.
“The initial interrogation has revealed that they are JMB activists, who were preparing a terror attack on programmes planned on the historic Mar 7.” Rajshahi’s Bagmara Upazila has been in the news of late because of militant activities.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at an Ahmadiyaa mosque in December, leaving 10 people injured.
In August 2015, RAB arrested a man, identified as Lutfur Rahman, claiming he was an adviser to top JMB leaders Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Siddikur Rahman, alias ‘Bangla Bhai’, hanged in 2007 for the murder of two judges in Jhalakathi. The law enforcers said Rahman was trying to reorganise the group in the Rajshahi region. The JMB had emerged in Bangladesh in the late 1990s under the leadership of Shaykh Abdur Rahman, a veteran of the Afghan war of the 80s.
Three activists of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrested with bombs in Rajshahi, says the Rapid Action Battalion.
The elite police unit claimed the men were planning a terror attack on Mar 7 (Monday), the day Bangladesh observes the 45th anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic Race Course address.
On this day in 1971, the Bangabandhu had appealed to all Bangalees to
join the independence struggle against Pakistan. The Rajshahi-based RAB unit said the men had been arrested early on Sunday morning from a village in the Bagmara Upazila. They had been identified as Amunir Rahman Supan, 35, Abu Sayeed Manik and PM Shahin Shah Tanin, said Assistant Superintendent of Police Alok Biswas.
The elite force had swung into action after the people of Purbaparha village informed it about the presence of three unfamiliar men in the area, said the RAB official. As many as 16 crude bombs, seven petrol bombs and jihadi literature were found on them, said Biswas.
“The initial interrogation has revealed that they are JMB activists, who were preparing a terror attack on programmes planned on the historic Mar 7.” Rajshahi’s Bagmara Upazila has been in the news of late because of militant activities.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at an Ahmadiyaa mosque in December, leaving 10 people injured.
In August 2015, RAB arrested a man, identified as Lutfur Rahman, claiming he was an adviser to top JMB leaders Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Siddikur Rahman, alias ‘Bangla Bhai’, hanged in 2007 for the murder of two judges in Jhalakathi. The law enforcers said Rahman was trying to reorganise the group in the Rajshahi region. The JMB had emerged in Bangladesh in the late 1990s under the leadership of Shaykh Abdur Rahman, a veteran of the Afghan war of the 80s.
