Rapid Action Battalion members have detained three members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) with 23 bombs from Shopuna para area under Bagmara upazila in Rajshahi.
The detainees are Aminur Rahman, 35, Abu Sayed Manik, 28, and PM Shahen Shah, 30.
RAB members claimed that the detainees were planning a terror attack ahead of March 7 with the molotov cocktails. The country will mark the 45th anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic Race Course address on the day.
RAB 5 ASP Alok Biswas said: “They were detained in a drive carried out around 4:45am Sunday with 16 crude bombs, seven petrol bombs and some jihadi books.
“They were preparing terror attacks on the programmes planned centring on March 7.”