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Published : 28 Dec 2025, 10:18 PM
Police have recovered two improvised explosive devices (IEDs), five electric bomb-like devices, and a large quantity of bomb-making materials from the madrasa that was levelled in an explosion in Hasnabad, Keraniganj.
In court, police said the madrasa’s head Sheikh Al Amin had stayed up all night making bombs before the explosion.
In the case filed at midnight on Saturday, police reported the recovery of different bomb-making materials and bombs.
Six of seven people named in the case have been arrested, while the key suspect Al Amin remains at large, police said.
At the remand hearing, the case’s investigating officer referred to the suspects as “militants” in court.
However, the Dhaka District Police has not made any official announcements, and Superintendent of Police (SP) Mizanur Rahman avoided questions on this matter.
A massive explosion rocked the Ummal Qura International Madrasa in Hasnabad of South Keraniganj, after 10am on Friday.
Afterwards, people saw the madrasa director heading for the “hospital” with his three children and wife. Al Amin later fled, leaving his injured family members at the hospital.
On Saturday afternoon, police reported the arrest of three women.
They are Al Amin’s wife Asiya Begum, 28; her elder brother’s wife Yasmin Akter, 30; and Asmani Khatun alias Asma, 34.
Based on the information provided by the arrestees, police arrested three more from Dhaka and Bagerhat.
They are Shahin alias Abu Bakr alias Musa alias Diba Sultan, 32; Aminur alias Darzi Amin, 50; and Shafiar Rahman Fakir, 36.
Police filed a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act against Al Amin and the six arrested at South Keraniganj Police Station around midnight on Saturday.
Items recovered in the case include 394 litres of liquid chemicals, 27 kg of powder-like substances, 500 grammes of iron balls and wired nail, two shotgun cartridges, two bombs, five electric bomb-like devices, a money-counting machine, a pair of handcuffs, 17 Islamic or “Jihadi” books, computers, motorcycles, and other materials.
The case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act has charged the suspects with creating terror in the public mind, causing damage to the people, life and property of the country, spreading religious extremism, planning and attempting to create sabotage, and conspiring.
SP Mizanur said, “According to the information given by the three arrested women, three people have been arrested from Dhaka and Bagerhat. They used to regularly travel to the madrasa in Keraniganj.
“Some explosives were recovered from Shahin, and some important information was recovered from the mobile phones of Amin and Shafiar.”
However, he declined to comment on whether they had ties to any militant organisation.
An official from the police headquarters said Al Amin was named in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act with Fatullah Police on Jul 29, 2017.
He was arrested then on suspicion of being a member of a militant organisation named “Neo-JMB”.
The fugitive “militant” Al Amin has filed a complaint with the Inquiry Commission on Enforced Disappearances against some police officers.
The official claimed to have received information that Al Amin did not mention his previous crimes there.
South Keraniganj Police SI Jahirul Islam, the case’s investigation officer, sought remand for the six suspects under the Anti-Terrorism Act in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman on Sunday.
