RAB arrested two men with 7.1kg of explosives and raw materials which they claim they were going to use to make explosives in the capital’s Abdullahpur area in Uttara early yesterday.
The arrested men are Ahmed Ali Sagar, 26, from Pashchimpara in Abdullahpur, and Md Azahar, 20, from Madhya Badera under Mymensingh Sadar upazila.
RAB 2 personnel conducted raid acting on a tip-off at Sagar’s house at Road 6, Abdullahpur around 4:30am and recovered the explosives and raw materials, said Raihan Uddin Khan, additional superintendent of police ana d the operation officer of RAB 2.
“During primary interrogation, Sagar and Azahar confessed that they had collected the explosives and raw materials to supply bombs to aid subversive activities, like they had in the past,” said the RAB 2 official.
According to RAB, Sagar is one of the main patronisers in making and supplying bombs. Prior to the arrest, he had been on the run because of a case filed against him on October 25 last year with Uttara East police station.
The elite force said the detained were professional bomb makers, but they had yet to disclose their political affiliation.