Intelligence agencies in Kolkata have prevented four Hyderabad youths from crossing over to Bangladesh to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Police on Friday said more youngsters from the city could be in touch with recruiters from the terror outfit, reported The Times of India.
“We have seen the news and we are looking into the matter. We have to examine the basis of the news,” Additional Secretary at Bangladesh's Home Ministry Kamal Uddin Ahmed told the Dhaka Tribune over phone yesterday.
Top Indian police officers said the recent al-Qaeda threat video and the starling revelation of the four city youngsters trying to get in touch with a jihadi handler in Bangladesh have left the security agencies jitter.
In the video of al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahri available on social networking sites, he proposed to spread Islamic rule and raise the "flag of jihad" across the Indian subcontinent.
Last Sunday, four youngsters in their early twenties, including two engineering students, were arrested by detectives in Kolkata while they were allegedly planning to meet an ISIS contact in Dhaka and join the terror outfit.
During interrogation, they revealed that 11 more youths from Hyderabad could be in touch with the ISIS handlers. Motivated by an ISIS handler in a Facebook group, the youngsters decided to join the ISIS and went to Kolkata a week ago without informing their parents.
