The authorities on Tuesday began a nationwide search for two convicted members of the banned Islamist militant outfit Jam’matul Mujahedin Bangladesh [JMB] when the security forces failed to hunt them down in Mymensingh and its surrounding areas.
Sources said the police are now using the most advanced technology to unearth the mystery behind Trishal terror attack and nab the entire gang which was involved in snatching condemn convicts in the broad daylight.
Apart from using hi-tech method, the police headquarters yesterday again sent the photographs of different forms, produced by using computer photoshop technique, to all bordering outposts and police stations to track down two absconding militants.
Police suspect that the fugitives Salauddin Ahmed alias Salehin and Zahidul Islam alias “Boma Mizan” have brought change in their faces and getup to escape arrest following combing operation of the joint forces for the last two consecutive days.
Already the teams from CID, RAB, DB and two other intelligence agencies have visited the spot to inspect the scene of crime where the forensic experts have collected evidences such as bullets, blood samples, cigarettes, etc., from the place of occurrence.
Besides, a special team comprising the officials of
Ministry of Home affairs also visited the spot yesterday morning to get a clear picture about the incident amid fueling fears of a resurgence of political violence in anywhere of the country.
Meanwhile, sensation gripped the security agencies when Zakaria Hossain and Md Russell-now in 20-day remand– have divulged information about the JMB’s technical expertise of making high velocity grenades and planting high explosives, sources said.
The security officials also got stunned when they revealed that the members of JMB military wing [hit quad] are highly trained in using sophisticated firearms while it has a ‘suicide squad’, which is capable to operate like al-Queda and Teherik-e Taliban, the sources added.
In this backdrop, all the security forces including the RAB, National Security Intelligence [NSI] and Special Branch [SB] have been directed to increase vigilance across the country to collect advance information of regrouping of the terrorist outfits.
“We have got information that some scattered leaders and activists of some militant outfits, including JMB, which are trying to regroup again,” a senior RAB official requesting not to be named told The New Nation.
Admitting the fact, Md Manirul Islam, Joint Commissioner, Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division, Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said: Though the JMB is divided in some sub-groups, it is now trying to regroup again under the leadership of Sohel Manfuz alias Bhagina Mahfuz as its Ameer.
Earlier on Sunday, a gang of 12-15 members of JMB, once the country’s deadliest terrorist organization, attacked a prison van at Trishal in Mymensingh and snatched away three condemned convicts by killing a cop and injuring three other policemen.
