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RAB raid on JMB hideout in Tongi, four including a regional chief arrested
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has raided a hideout of militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB in Gazipur's Tongi early on Thursday.
Published : 21 July 2016, 03:21 AM
Updated : 21 July 2016, 04:49 AM
During the raid on a house, the elite police unit arrested four JMB activists, including a regional chief of the banned group.
RAB's media wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan said a huge quantity of weapons, ammunition and bomb-making material have been recovered from the house.
Khan said the RAB swung into action after receiving a tip-off that the JMB militants were sheltered on the fifth floor of the six-storey building at Ouchpara in Tongi's Mukhtarbari.
The house belonged to one Jesmin Akhtar, he added.
Among the four JMB activists arrested was one Mahmudul Hassan Tanvir, the ‘Amir’ of the group's southern region, the RAB spokesperson said.
The other three have been identified as Ashiqul Akbar Abesh, Najmus Shakib and Rahmatullah Shuvo.
Khan said these four had taken shelter in this house before Eid during Ramadan and that the house was used for training JMB recruits.
He said eight bombs and bomb-making material, a pistol, a magazine, more than 100 rounds of ammunition, eight machetes and some jihadi literature have been seized from the house.
Security forces have been looking for JMB hideouts and raiding them since the Gulshan cafe and Sholakia terror strikes, for which Bangladesh intelligence agencies have blamed the JMB.
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