Police’s Detective Branch says it has killed a suspected militant in a gunfight in Dhaka.
Pias, a member Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), became a leader of its Dhaka unit military wing in January, DB (south) Deputy Commissioner Mashrukur Rahman Khaled said, claiming that Pias had planned major attacks in the capital.
He said they were informed that Pias was in Khilgaon and raided the area in the early hours of yesterday. Pias and his associates fired at DB and was injured in retaliatory fire. He was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead, Mashrukur told the Dhaka Tribune.
Police recovered a pistol, ammunition and three improvised bombs from the scene, he added.
On January 13, JMB’s Dhaka north military wing commander Abdullah Al Noman alias Abdullah, 31, and its central military wing’s second-in-command Kamal alias Hiron, 25, were killed in an alleged gunfight with DB at Hazaribagh.
DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam claimed the two were involved in the bombing on Shias and killing of two policemen in Dhaka.
Replying to a question, Mashrukur said Pias became JMB’s Dhaka unit military wing leader after the death of Noman and Hiron.
He claimed Pias was also involved in a bank robbery in Chittagong. “He was an expert bomb maker. He had been living in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchor for a while and learning driving, presumably to carry out major attacks in Dhaka,” the DB officer added.
