4 ‘HuJI men’ arrested with bombs, knives in Gazipur

Police have arrested four suspected members of the banned extremist group Harkat-ul-Jihad Al Islami (HuJI) from Gazipur.

Gazipur Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 28 Oct 2016, 10:13 AM
Updated : 28 Oct 2016, 10:24 AM

They were caught with bombs and extremist literature, Md Harun Ur Rashid,superintendent of police (SP), told a press briefing at noon on Friday.

Those arrested are Khairul Islam, 26, of Kautalia, Aminul Haque, 49, of Tangail Sadar, Shahid Ullah, 43 and Golam Kibria Khan, 25 of Mymensingh.     

Among them Khairul Islam and Golam Kibria were students at Gazipur’s Islamic University of Technology (IUT) and Shahid Ullah was a militant who had returned from Myanmar’s Arakan, the SP said. 

The arrests were made after police raided ‘Sufia Cottage’, an abandoned one-storey house at Joydebpur’s Nanduyain on Thursday night, SP Harun told reporters at his office. 

“We detained the four men and recovered two knives, one machete, 14 petrol bombs, four hand bombs, electronic devices and extremist literature.”

Shahid Ullah, he said, had gone to Arakan ‘to die a martyr’, while Aminul Islam was in charge of providing instructions on Jihad.