Staff Reporter :
Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested five members of banned militant outfit Jamaa’tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
The arrested men were identified as Mostafizur Rahman Shahin, 40, Regional Commander of Pabna, Abdul Quddus, 40, Abdul Wahab, 65, Abdur Rahman alias Abdul, 30, and Abdul Majid, 50, Police said.
Abdur Razzak, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Pabna Sadar Police Station, said that Mostafizur was arrested in a raid at Kacharipur around 3:00am on charge of recruiting militants in Pabna.
He was commander during a bomb attack in
Meherpur district when a series of bomb attack took place simultaneously across the country on August 17 in 2005, the OC said.
Meanwhile, police arrested Abdul Quddus, a follower of executed JMB leader Bangla Bhai, from his residence at Yogipara of Bagmara Upazila in Rajshahi around 3:00am, said Sumit Chowdhury, Additional Superintendent of Police in Rajshahi.
Besides, the law enforcers arrested alleged JMB members Abdul Wahab from Puthia Upazila in the district, the police official said.
In Jamalpur, Police arrested two suspected JMB operatives from Fulbarhia during a meeting in the district around 4:00am, said Jamalpur Sadar Police OC Nasimul Islam.
“The meeting was convened to plan for violent attacks in the area. Both the arrested are accused in cases for terror activities,” the OC said.
Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested five members of banned militant outfit Jamaa’tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
The arrested men were identified as Mostafizur Rahman Shahin, 40, Regional Commander of Pabna, Abdul Quddus, 40, Abdul Wahab, 65, Abdur Rahman alias Abdul, 30, and Abdul Majid, 50, Police said.
Abdur Razzak, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Pabna Sadar Police Station, said that Mostafizur was arrested in a raid at Kacharipur around 3:00am on charge of recruiting militants in Pabna.
He was commander during a bomb attack in
Meherpur district when a series of bomb attack took place simultaneously across the country on August 17 in 2005, the OC said.
Meanwhile, police arrested Abdul Quddus, a follower of executed JMB leader Bangla Bhai, from his residence at Yogipara of Bagmara Upazila in Rajshahi around 3:00am, said Sumit Chowdhury, Additional Superintendent of Police in Rajshahi.
Besides, the law enforcers arrested alleged JMB members Abdul Wahab from Puthia Upazila in the district, the police official said.
In Jamalpur, Police arrested two suspected JMB operatives from Fulbarhia during a meeting in the district around 4:00am, said Jamalpur Sadar Police OC Nasimul Islam.
“The meeting was convened to plan for violent attacks in the area. Both the arrested are accused in cases for terror activities,” the OC said.
