2 more suspected JMB men arrested in Rangpur
3 remanded for 5 days
Our Correspondent, Rangpur
Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in separate drives arrested two more suspected members of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Gangachara yesterday. They are Azizul Islam, 35, of Moubhasa village and Mahfuz Alam Bhutto, 33, of Changmari village in the upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a Rab team arrested Mahfuz Alam Bhutto from the ground of Gangachara High School at about 10 am. Rab said he was scheduled to meet some other JMB members there. Maj. Bari of Rab-5 said Bhutto was accused for involvement in the August 17 countrywide serial bomb blasts in 2005. He was absconding since then, Rab sources said. In another drive, a joint team of Rab and police arrested Azizul Islam from his house at Moubhasa. He is assistant teacher at Modamodan High School in Kounia upazila. Police said, Azizul is a listed JMB member. Meanwhile, Gangachara police on Thursday took three alleged JMB members on five days' remand. During interrogation they disclosed some vital information on JMB activities in remote shoal areas in Rangpur, police said but declined to elaborate. A police official preferring anonymity said, a number of JMB militants from other districts used to go to Teesta shoals in Gangachara and Kaunia upazilas and meet a Jamaat-e-Islami leader and JMB member Khalequzzan there. The two are now in jail.
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