Staff Reporter :The members of Detective Branch (DB) in a drive busted ‘militants’ dens’ and discovered large cache of lethal weapons, bombs and explosives in the capital’s Badda and Mohammadpur areas.They also picked up two suspected militants along with bombs and explosives. They are Bangla Team members Kamal alias Shahin and Shah Alam alias Salauddin Hiron.Bahauddin, 45, Inspector of the DB, was also hacked by the militants during the raid between 8:00pm on Friday and 3:30am on Saturday, detective source said.DB’s Additional Deputy Commissioner (North) Mahfuzul Islam said, “The detectives first raided House No. 577 in the GM Bari area at Satarkul of North Badda at about 8:00pm. At that time, a clash ensured between the detectives and militants. The DB men nabbed two ‘militants’ and seized lethal weapons and some documents from the ground floor of the house.They also took four persons, including the house owner, to the DB office for interrogation. Later, nine more people, including seven women of the building, were taken to the DB office for interrogation.”Militants hacked inspector Bahauddin during the drive. The detectives fired 15-20 gunshots for self-defense that led the militant members to fire back. As per information gleaned from the detainees, the DB team, later, raided a bomb-making factory of Ansarullah Bangla Team on the fourth floor of House No. 28 at Nabodoy Housing in Mohammadpur at night. But the detectives could not make any arrest as the militants managed to flee sensing the drive. But, they seized huge bombs and bomb making materials from the spot. The DMP’s newly-formed Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, also known as CT, Chief Monirul Islam said that detectives arrested Shahin and Salauddin from Badda around 10:00pm on Friday.Monirul said that the Badda den was Ansarullah Bangla Team’s headquarters and Mohammadpur den was their bomb-making factory.”We have collected samples from the two dens that will be sent for DNA test to identify the criminals,” he said.
