RAB arrests 'Neo-JMB' couples from Dhaka and Narayanganj

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested two couples, suspected to be members of Neo-JMB, during raids at Dhaka and Narayanganj.

RAB-2 and RAB-11 conducted the raids on Tuesday night following specific tip-offs, RAB media wing Assistant Director ASP Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan said.

The elite force says the four suspected militants were preparing to flee Bangladesh.

ASP Mizanur said they were planning to flee because of the crackdown by security forces in Bangladesh.

They have been identified as Md Aminul Islam, his wife Nahid Sultana, and Shariful Islam Mahmud and his wife Marzia Akter Sumi.

He did not say which country they were planning to escape to.

Details would be revealed in a news conference later, he said.

Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, who police said had reorganised Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh as Neo-JMB, was killed in a raid on a house in Narayanganj along with two others on Aug 27.

His 'deputy and armed wing chief' former army major Mohammad Jahidul Islam was killed in a similar raid on a house in Mirpur on Sep 2.