Staff Reporter :
The Army has declared the conclusion of the ‘Operation Twilight’ at the militant hideout Atia Mahal at Shibbari of Sylhet city and the police raid will continue till the further announcement on behalf of the law enforcers.
The charge of the five-storied building was handed over to the police on Tuesday evening after five days of cordoned off the militant den by law enforcers.
Brigadier General Fakhrul Ahsan, spokesperson and director of the Intelligence unit of Bangladesh Army, told reporters in a press conference at Jalalabad Army Cantonment at 7:30pm yesterday.
The Army Commando Personnel conducted raid at the den and identified the explosive materials which were spearing at different floors of the building since Tuesday, the Army spokesman said.
Fakhrul said, “We concluded the operation as the Criminal Investigation Department’s Crime Scene Unit took crime scene and sample from the den.”
The Army has also started to withdraw arms and other equipments from the spot – Atia Mahal, he said.
The army-led operation, ‘Operation Twilight’, began 0on Saturday morning, although police launched the raid on the militant den early Friday, according to him.
The army, leading an ongoing anti-militant raid in Sylhet, used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students to locate explosives, he added.
It was being used to take pictures of the
interior of the green-colored Atia Mahal where militants had planted improvised explosive devices, report our local correspondent quoting a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
The army is analysing the pictures to identify and locate the explosives devices on the stairwell, entrance and floors.
Earlier, the army had said the presence of huge amount of IEDs in the house was prolonging their operation.
Meanwhile, Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Additional Commissioner SM Rokonddin said that police took the charge of Atia Mahal around 5:30pm of Tuesday.
The bomb disposal experts visited the building and its adjacent area while the another team of law enforcing agencies collected crime scene, the police official said.
He said that they heard seven to eight sounds of explosion from the militants’ hideout since yesterday afternoon.
The law enforcers also issued restriction for people around three squire kilometers area considering the security measurements and it will be continued till further declaration, the Additional Commissioner said.
It is to be noted that, two of the militants rented the house introducing themselves as Morjina and Kawser. Morjina also submitted a copy of his national ID card. However, police are now verifying their identities.
The Counterterrorism unit of police on Tuesday said that one of the four militants killed in the army operation in Sylhet is believed to be Maynul Islam Musa, a key leader of the militant outfit “Neo-JMB”. He is trying to reorganise the outfit and is carrying out targeted attacks.
Police claimed that they identified Musa with the picture he showed while renting out the house.
On Monday evening, the Army said commandoes recovered two of the four bodies of suspected militants found inside Atia Mahal.
Musa has become a key leader of “Neo-JMB” following the killing of its top leaders, including Tamim, Major (retd) Jahid and Tanvir Kaderi, in separate operations in Dhaka and Narayanganj, CTTC unit chief Monirul Islam, said on January 7, 2017.
Basudev Banik, Deputy Commissioner (south) of SMP, acknowledged the blasts and said Bangladesh Army commandos were inside disposing bombs and recovering bodies.
However, the law enforcers raid at the den was not declared to an end in the five day on Tuesday, the DC said.
Some residents of Pathanpara, an area just 250 yards away from the operation site Atia Mahal, have begun returning to their homes feeling secured and safe, he said.
The raid will remain effective there until the raid ends completely, said Jedan Al-Musa, additional deputy commissioner (media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.
The unidentified bodies-one of a woman and another of a man-were taken inside the morgueon Tuesday evening, Officer-in-Charge of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station.
A medical board led by Dr Shamsul Alam was conducting postmortems on the bodies of the militants, aged between 25 and 33.
During the autopsies, DNA samples will be collected for different chemical tests, OC Sohel said adding that the bodies will be kept at the hospital morgue until those are identified.
A family from Bandarban is en route to Sylhet to trace whether their “missing daughter” is the dead female militant who was killed in “Operation Twilight” at Atia Mahal.
The Army has declared the conclusion of the ‘Operation Twilight’ at the militant hideout Atia Mahal at Shibbari of Sylhet city and the police raid will continue till the further announcement on behalf of the law enforcers.
The charge of the five-storied building was handed over to the police on Tuesday evening after five days of cordoned off the militant den by law enforcers.
Brigadier General Fakhrul Ahsan, spokesperson and director of the Intelligence unit of Bangladesh Army, told reporters in a press conference at Jalalabad Army Cantonment at 7:30pm yesterday.
The Army Commando Personnel conducted raid at the den and identified the explosive materials which were spearing at different floors of the building since Tuesday, the Army spokesman said.
Fakhrul said, “We concluded the operation as the Criminal Investigation Department’s Crime Scene Unit took crime scene and sample from the den.”
The Army has also started to withdraw arms and other equipments from the spot – Atia Mahal, he said.
The army-led operation, ‘Operation Twilight’, began 0on Saturday morning, although police launched the raid on the militant den early Friday, according to him.
The army, leading an ongoing anti-militant raid in Sylhet, used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students to locate explosives, he added.
It was being used to take pictures of the
interior of the green-colored Atia Mahal where militants had planted improvised explosive devices, report our local correspondent quoting a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
The army is analysing the pictures to identify and locate the explosives devices on the stairwell, entrance and floors.
Earlier, the army had said the presence of huge amount of IEDs in the house was prolonging their operation.
Meanwhile, Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Additional Commissioner SM Rokonddin said that police took the charge of Atia Mahal around 5:30pm of Tuesday.
The bomb disposal experts visited the building and its adjacent area while the another team of law enforcing agencies collected crime scene, the police official said.
He said that they heard seven to eight sounds of explosion from the militants’ hideout since yesterday afternoon.
The law enforcers also issued restriction for people around three squire kilometers area considering the security measurements and it will be continued till further declaration, the Additional Commissioner said.
It is to be noted that, two of the militants rented the house introducing themselves as Morjina and Kawser. Morjina also submitted a copy of his national ID card. However, police are now verifying their identities.
The Counterterrorism unit of police on Tuesday said that one of the four militants killed in the army operation in Sylhet is believed to be Maynul Islam Musa, a key leader of the militant outfit “Neo-JMB”. He is trying to reorganise the outfit and is carrying out targeted attacks.
Police claimed that they identified Musa with the picture he showed while renting out the house.
On Monday evening, the Army said commandoes recovered two of the four bodies of suspected militants found inside Atia Mahal.
Musa has become a key leader of “Neo-JMB” following the killing of its top leaders, including Tamim, Major (retd) Jahid and Tanvir Kaderi, in separate operations in Dhaka and Narayanganj, CTTC unit chief Monirul Islam, said on January 7, 2017.
Basudev Banik, Deputy Commissioner (south) of SMP, acknowledged the blasts and said Bangladesh Army commandos were inside disposing bombs and recovering bodies.
However, the law enforcers raid at the den was not declared to an end in the five day on Tuesday, the DC said.
Some residents of Pathanpara, an area just 250 yards away from the operation site Atia Mahal, have begun returning to their homes feeling secured and safe, he said.
The raid will remain effective there until the raid ends completely, said Jedan Al-Musa, additional deputy commissioner (media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.
The unidentified bodies-one of a woman and another of a man-were taken inside the morgueon Tuesday evening, Officer-in-Charge of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station.
A medical board led by Dr Shamsul Alam was conducting postmortems on the bodies of the militants, aged between 25 and 33.
During the autopsies, DNA samples will be collected for different chemical tests, OC Sohel said adding that the bodies will be kept at the hospital morgue until those are identified.
A family from Bandarban is en route to Sylhet to trace whether their “missing daughter” is the dead female militant who was killed in “Operation Twilight” at Atia Mahal.
