Staff Reporter :
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTCU) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two members of the new JMB from city’s Jatrabari area on Sunday.
According to CTTCU, the detainees used to take online bomb-making training from Zahid Hasan alias Forkan, one of the new JMB bomb-making trainers. Zahid is also a student of Chemistry Department at Jahangirnagar University.
Md Asaduzzaman, Chief of the CTTCU, said this at a press conference on Monday, after law enforcers arrested two militants in Jatrabari.
The arrested are identified as Shafiqur Rahman Hridoy alias Baitullah Mehsud alias Captain Khattab and Md. Khalid Hasan Bhuiyan alias Afnan.
They were arrested in a raid in Jatrabari police station area of the capital on Sunday. In the drive, police also recovered 400 grams of red explosives, three cans of butane gas, a set of remote control devices, 4 packets of small bearing balls, 10 Christmas bulbs, two black electric tapes, an IED making manual and a motorcycle used in the attack.
They (militants) are not active offline, but they are active online, CTTCU chief added.
So, the city dwellers have nothing to worry about this.
Earlier on July 11, the CTTCU’s Bomb Disposal Unit and SWAT team in a joint operation arrested Abdullah Al Mamun, a member of the military wing of the new JMB from Araihazar police station in Narayanganj district, with bombs and bomb-making equipment. After that based on Mamun’s information, Shafiqur and Khalid Hasan, members of the military wing of the new JMB and one of the bomb makers, were arrested from the Jatrabari area of the capital, .
Asaduzzaman said, “It is known from the preliminary interrogation that on May 16, the new JMB Amir Mahadi Hasan alias Abu Abbas Al Bengali carried out a bomb attack on the police at a signboard traffic box under Siddhirganj police station in Narayanganj district.” After several attempts due to a faulty remote, the bomb failed to explode and they left the scene, leaving the remote on the side of the road. Later the bomb disposal unit of the CTTCU defused the bomb at the scene.
A case has been filed against them at Jatrabari police station. The operation to arrest the fugitive accused involved in the incident is continuing, he added.
