RAB 5 Commander Mahbubur Rahman briefs the media while presenting the seized explosives and bomb-making materials on Sunday, February 18, 2018 | Dhaka TribuneAt a press briefing later in the day, RAB 5 Commander Mahbubur Rahman said they seized 500 grams of gunpowder, electric wires, crude shrapnel and a number of raw materials used to make bombs, along with jihadi literature, during their raid at Sahebjan’s house.
He said the arrestees were later taken to RAB 5 headquarters and being interrogated.
They would be handed over to Tanore police station after the questioning. A case under the Anti Terrorism Act would also be started against them, Mahbubur added.Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained three suspected active members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) with bomb-making materials from a house at Bilshahar village in Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila.
Acting on a tip-off that JMB members gathered there secretly to plan subversive activities, a RAB 5 team conducted a drive and arrested the trio in the early hours of Sunday.
They are Sahebjan Ali, 35, Abul Kalam Azad, 28, and Jahangir Alam alias Alam, 28.
RAB 5 Commander Mahbubur Rahman briefs the media while presenting the seized explosives and bomb-making materials on Sunday, February 18, 2018 | Dhaka TribuneAt a press briefing later in the day, RAB 5 Commander Mahbubur Rahman said they seized 500 grams of gunpowder, electric wires, crude shrapnel and a number of raw materials used to make bombs, along with jihadi literature, during their raid at Sahebjan’s house.
He said the arrestees were later taken to RAB 5 headquarters and being interrogated.
They would be handed over to Tanore police station after the questioning. A case under the Anti Terrorism Act would also be started against them, Mahbubur added.
RAB 5 Commander Mahbubur Rahman briefs the media while presenting the seized explosives and bomb-making materials on Sunday, February 18, 2018 | Dhaka TribuneAt a press briefing later in the day, RAB 5 Commander Mahbubur Rahman said they seized 500 grams of gunpowder, electric wires, crude shrapnel and a number of raw materials used to make bombs, along with jihadi literature, during their raid at Sahebjan’s house.
He said the arrestees were later taken to RAB 5 headquarters and being interrogated.
They would be handed over to Tanore police station after the questioning. A case under the Anti Terrorism Act would also be started against them, Mahbubur added.