Staff Reporter :The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday arrested six suspected members of two militant outfits, who believed to be involved in different terror attacks, including Gulshan and Sholakia. In an overnight raid, they were arrested from the city’s Uttara, Mirpur and Gabtali areas. The arrested persons admitted to RAB that they had carried out 11 attacks so far.The arrestees were identified as Jahid Anwar alias Porag, 22, a student of Govt Titumir College, M Tajul Islam, 29, Jahid Hasan, 21, Engineer Mostafizur Rahman alias Shifat, an alleged administrator of JMB website ‘At-Tamkin’, M Ziaul Hoque Zia, 24, and M Nayan, 21. Of them, five are members of the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and another one from Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT). Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan, Media Wing Director of the elite force, disclosed this in a press briefing at the RAB Headquarters on Wednesday. “Tipped off that a group of militants were preparing to carry out subversive activities in the capital, the elite force members raided the Airport Railway Station and arrested Jahid Anwar Porag around 10:00pm,” Mufti Mahmud said. Following his information, another team of RAB arrested Tajul and Jahid from a restaurant in the city’s Gabtoli around 2:00am, the RAB official said. Later, they arrested Engineer Mostafiz, Zia and Nayan from a house at Uttar Bishil in Mirpur area around 5:00am, he said. During the preliminary interrogation, five of them claimed themselves as members of the Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) while another said he was a member of Ansarullah Bangla Team, the elite force official said. On the other hand, Engineer Mostafiz admitted to the RAB that he was the administrator of website ‘At-Tamkin’ and the five others are the members of ‘Sleeper Cell’ of JMB, he also claimed. Two pistols, 13 detonators, four machetes, five hand grenades, 12 chocolate bombs, four grams of power gel, eight grams of white gunpowder and five grams of red gunpowder were also seized from their possessions, he said.
