UNB, Chittagong :
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested five suspected members of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) Bangladesh from a ‘militant den’ in city’s Colonel Haat area on Thursday.
The arrestees were identified as Nazim Uddin, Tajul Islam, Hafez Abu Jar Gifari, Iftisham Ahmed and Nure Alam. Sohel Mahmud, assistant superintendent of Rab-7, said a team of the elite force arrested two suspected Huji members-Nazim and Tajul- from AK Khan area on Wednesday night. Based on the information gleaned from the duo during primary interrogation, the RAB members conducted a drive at Mukim Talukdar Para in Akbar Shar area and cordoned off a two-storey building around 6 am.
Later, the elite force stormed into the first floor of the building around 10 am and arrested three other Huji men from the house. The militants burnt down a laptop, mobile phone sets and some documents in the meantime.
The Rab members also recovered two firearms, four grenades, huge bomb making materials, some sharp weapons and jihadi books from their possession.
The militants rented the first floor of the two-storey building, owned by one Haji Mansur Ali, in mid-November and had been residing in the flat from December 1, said the Rab ASP.
The owner of the building could not be found as he went into hiding, he added.
