Staff Reporter :
Members of law enforcing agencies in a drive detained seven persons from a a house owned by a local Awami League leader in Kalibari area of Mymensingh town on Monday afternoon, said Chowdhury Abdullah Al Maumn, Deputy Inspector General (Mymensingh Range) of Police.
We could not find any explosive dives there unlike in the recent militant dens in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts, the DIG said.
We are trying to collect more information the police official said.
The detained men were identified as Shahidul Islam, 35, Ashiqur Rahman, 19, Masum Ahmed 30, Nasir Uddin, 23, Al Amin, 25, Roman Mia, 25, and Hasan Shamim, 25, said our local correspondent after quoting Nurul Islam,
Superintendent of Police (SP) of Mymensingh.
“On an information that suspected militants holed up inside a one-storey building at Bhabanipur Lodge in Boro Kalibari area, Police conducted a two-hour drive at the house from 12:30pm on Monday,” the police official said.
He said bomb making equipment, objectionable books, CDs and computers were recovered from their possession, the SP said,
Police initially asked them to surrender, but they did not comply. Then the law enforcers broke into the house and detained the seven, the SP said.
No firearms or explosives were found in the house. But a large number of bank cheques, computers and other books were found in the house, he said.
The Police Headquarters has recently sent a list of nearly 5,000 suspected militants to all district police chiefs. They are conducting special drives across Bangladesh to apprehend the militants.
